Research Assistant in Spatial Transcriptomics of Human Adipose Tissue

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

is a multidisciplinary research group of 1520 members, including postdoctoral fellows, PhD and masters students, and technical staff. We are equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, encompassing a comprehensive preclinical laboratory at Biomedicum and a dedicated clinical research unit at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge. Using these resources, we focus on understanding how alterations in human white adipocyte function contribute to cardiometabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and atherosclerosis.

Your mission

We are recruiting a research assistant to lead a project focused on adipose tissue alterations in prediabetes, based on a well-characterized human cohort. The project builds on adipose tissue biopsies collected within a large population-based study linked to extensive clinical phenotyping and detailed fat cell characteriz...