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Research Assistant Professor

Hiring Department: Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1040433

Posting Close Date: 5/16/2026

Salary: (commensurate with experience): $70,000 - $75,000.00 / Annual Salary

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Position Summary

A Research Assistant Professor is needed in the Mehta lab to perform research activities pertaining to regulation of endothelial permeability and lung injury by conducting various vascular and molecular biology experiments in vitro and in vivo.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Participate in and help advance ongoing research programs focused on mechanisms regulating lung vascular biology, with the broader area of disease context.

• Develop innovative experimental strategies and incorporating emerging approaches such as molecular engineering, informatics-driven analysis, spatial transcriptomics, and multiomic technologies to expand the scope and impact of ongoing research.

• Supervise and mentor laboratory personnel, coordinating day-to-day research operations, contributing to the preparation of grant applications and scientific manuscripts, and fostering productive collaborations with investigators within UIC and at external research institutions.

• Conduct research experiments broadly focused on endothelial cell signalling and endothelial cell interactions with immune cells including lymphoid and myeloid cells in various disease models including but not limited to cancer and ARDS/ALI.

• Design and execution of experiments involving primary cell isolation, FACS-based analysis and sorting, molecular biology assays, and genomic approaches to study endothelial and immune cell interactions.

• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the discipline, including successful postdoctoral training, with at least 4 years of demonstrated leadership in the research area.

• Prior expertise in bulk RNA sequencing, ATAC sequencing, scRNA sequencing, and scATAC sequencing.

• Experience with multiomic approaches, including scRNA and scATAC multiome datasets.

• Expertise in bioinformatics analysis using R and Python, including analysis pipelines for single-cell and multiomic datasets.

• Experience with computational tools for single-cell analysis (e.g., Seurat, Cell Ranger ARC, RNA velocity and trajectory analysis).

• Expertise in FACS analysis using FlowJo and primary cell sorting from mouse tissues, including lung and thymus, with specific experience isolating endothelial cells and T cells.

• Experience with genetically modified mouse models to study endothelial biology and disease mechanisms.

• Expertise in various in vivo models to study cancer, including orthotopic implantation, subcutaneous tumor models, and metastatic models, with knowledge of angiogenesis assays.

• Expertise in lung injury models using pathogens (Pseudomonas aerogenosa) as well as LPS induced injury models.

• Experience with basic molecular biology techniques, including qPCR, Western blotting, cloning, lentiviral or retroviral transduction, and gene expression analysis.

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