Job Description
The Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology at the University of Virginia – School of Medicine is seeking an outstanding post-doctoral research associate. This is a training position in the lab of Dr. Mariano Garcia-Blanco whose work focuses on RNA biology.
The Garcia-Blanco Lab was recently awarded funding from a biotechnology industrial partner to evaluate alternative splicing as a technology to promote tissue-specific or cell type-specific expression in gene therapy. This project will leverage post-transcriptional gene regulation, specifically tissue-specific mRNA splicing and intron-retention, as a way to enhance cell-type specific expression of transgenes.