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Current vacancies

Research Fellow, Bioinformatics (Infectious Diseases)

The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology is seeking a Research Fellow to contribute to a groundbreaking project on developing antiviral therapeutics for respiratory pathogens with pandemic potential using CRISPR-Cas13 gene-editing tools. Collaborating with leading experts from the Doherty Institute and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the role focuses on creating computational pipelines to analyse viral sequence data, identify drug targets, and develop user-friendly web platforms. The Research Fellow will also support related projects on vaccine target identification, joining a multidisciplinary team dedicated to advancing pandemic preparedness and therapeutic innovation.

For more information and to apply, visit the University of Melbourne careers page.

Applications close Thursday, 9 January.

Community Partner

Do you have experience living with or caring for someone with cancer or an infectious disease? Do you want to improve health outcomes by sharing your experience and community perspective?

We are seeking community members with experience living with or caring for someone with an infectious disease, immune-related disorder or illness where immunotherapy plays an important role, such as cancer.

You would join the Community Partnership Program and contribute lived experience and community perspectives to health and medical research at the Doherty Institute.

Through the program, you will be paired with a research group and supported to:

• Develop a collaborative and long-term partnership
• Provide feedback and advice
• Bring community priorities to health and medical research
• Improve communication of research findings
• Guide design of relevant research projects

The program aims to represent the diversity found in the broader community and is recruiting community partners diverse in gender, age, disability, sexuality, geographical location, culture, and ethnicity.

Note: previous research experience not essential

Applications can be submitted via this online form. Contact info-cpp@unimelb.edu.au for more information or see our Recruitment Brief and Terms of Reference.

Applications ongoing.

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