Overview

The Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) seeks a highly motivated Research Associate. IOB is a research institute combining basic and clinical research. Its mission is to drive innovations in understanding vision and its diseases and develop new therapies for vision loss. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your abilities challenged, and your knowledge expanded.

Position

We are recruiting a Research Associate in computational ion channel and membrane-protein design (protein design, structural and synthetic biology). In this role, you will drive an end-to-end, design–build–test cycle: computationally design engineered ion channels (e.g., light-responsive membrane proteins), translate designs into expression constructs , and validate function in mammalian systems in collaboration with colleagues performing quantitative assays (with access to high-throughput electrophysiology ...