Dear ccp4bb readers, Postdoctoral and PhD research positions are available at the Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct) in Tromsø, on projects related to structure based anticancer drug discovery. The positions are to be filled in the period July 2009 to Jan 2010, and are of 3 to 4 years duration. Successful candidates will work on collaborative projects in basic and applied studies of protein kinase inhibitors as anticancer drugs, concentrating on crystallography, physical binding studies, screening, theoretical modelling, and chemical synthesis. As applicants would join a research group with diverse techniques and methodologies, specialists from a broad range of specializations and/or interests will be considered, particularly including applied mathematicians or bioinformaticists.
For more information regarding the positions, see: http://uit.no/norstruct/3202/#kinases The positions will be based at the Departments of Chemistry, and will involve close collaboration with the Department of Mathematics, the Norwegian Structural Biology Center (NORSTRUCT, see http://uit.no/norstruct/), the Norwegian Centre of Excellence for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC, see http://www.ctcc.uit.no/ ) and the medical faculty in Tromsø, among other national and international collaborators. The University of Tromsoe is the world's northernmost university; Tromsoe is a growing center for biotechnology and marine bioprospecting research and commercial activities. Its surroundings offer a wide variety of opportunities in a spectacular setting with a surprisingly mild--and warming--climate. See e.g. http://www.destinasjontromso.no/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromsø for further information. Please forward this to potential candidates. Thanks, Rick -- ----------------------------------------- Richard A. Engh, PhD. Professor of Structural Chemistry The Norwegian Structural Biology Centre Department of Chemistry University of Tromsø 9037 Tromsø, Norway -----------------------------------------
