Clinician Scientists (w/m/d)

The EKFZ for optogenetic therapies at the University Medical Center Göttingen is dedicated to the translation of four core approaches to restore (1) hearing and (2) vision and explore the potential of optogenetics for (3) gastric pacemaking and (4) brain-computer interfaces. These four teams are supported by the platforms for (1) opsin engineering, (2) gene transfer, (3) disease models, (4) immune-phenotyping and (5) development of medical devices.
The goal of this center is to harness the great potential of optogenetics - the control of cells with light via light-sensitive proteins (opsins) - for clinical use. Optogenetics enables spatially confined, cell-type-specific control of organs and promises a transformative improvement of clinical care beyond that provided by conventional electrical medical devices for a wide range of patients.
As a Clinician Scientist you will be a key for further and improved optogenetic therapies to become available to patients. The EKFZ academy will provide you with a training program tailored to translation including courses on methods, good laboratory-, manufacturing- and clinical- practice, medical statistics, regulatory processes, pre-clinical and clinical trial planning.
Your tasks

• Clinician Scientists are given the opportunity to plan and realize their own research project
• The project needs to be within the scientific scope of the EKFZ center for optogenetic therapies and supervision by a principal investigator of the EKFZ center for optogenetic therapies and assigned to one of the four teams or five platforms
• The project can be either in basic research or a part of the clinical studies

Your qualifications

• completed studies in human medicine with license to practice medicine
• you have started but did not finish your residency at one of the partner institutions (UMG, MHH, Freiburg)
• medical doctorate, at least completed experimental part of the doctoral thesis or research experience for at least three months
• proof of scientific interest by a scientifically sound and promising project outline
• independent, responsible, flexible working style and ability to work in a team

We offer

• integration into the EKFZ teams and platforms
• mentoring by renowned scientists of the EKFZ
• membership in the EKFZ academy, promoting exchange between medical and natural scientists and specifically focusing on training in translation (patent applications, regulatory processes, clinical studies etc.)
• a wide range of interesting benefits as a UMG employee (including in-house daycare center, child vacation care, attractive infrastructure; health and sports promoted by excellent company health management)
• location in a beautiful and historic German university town steeped in tradition, with a campus that includes the University of Göttingen, Max Planck Institutes, German Primate Centre and other local research institutions