CareerPlan

Life Scientist (m/w/d)

Düsseldorf, NORDRHEIN_WESTFALENFull-time2026-10-28 → 2026-11-11

Core

Investigate how exercise and age-related muscle loss alter the skeletal muscle secretome to identify novel myokines and their roles in sarcopenia, metabolic disease, and cancer biology.

Role type

Postdoctoral Fellow (Research Scientist)

Builds

Research findings on muscle-derived signaling pathways and their therapeutic potential

Domain

Biomedical research, metabolism, cancer biology

Deliverable

research

Required skills

Proteomics/mass spectrometry, secretome analysis, cell biology, molecular signaling, metabolic research, cancer biology, mouse model work

Preferred skills

Supervising students or doctoral researchers

Technologies

Mass spectrometry, mouse models

Responsibilities

Systematically investigate the skeletal muscle secretome in the context of exercise and aging; identify novel exercise-sensitive myokines; define roles of signaling pathways in tumor growth and metabolic disease

Seniority

Postdoctoral Fellow (Junior Research Group)