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Applications are invited from eligible candidates for three temporary positions including one Senior Research Fellow; one Junior Research Fellow and one Scientific Assistant in DBT sponsored research project under the supervision of Dr. Dipankar Ghosh, Special Centre for Molecular Medicine (SCMM), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Title of the project: Targeted Profiling of mucosal cationic antimicrobial peptides and cytokines in culture positive neonatal sepsis".

Post I: Senior Research Fellow (SRF)

Salary: 35,000 +24% HRA: 43400

Duration: 9 months (extendible to 2 years)

Essential qualifications: Candidate should be M.Sc. in Genetics, Microbiology or Biotechnology with at least an aggregate of 55% marks and minimum 3 years’ experience in immunology, BSL-2 pathogen – (human) cell interaction research. At least one international, pubmed cited publication.

Desirable qualifications: experience in biomedical research including Indian Institutional Biosafety and Human Ethics Regulations; handling human clinical samples. Experience in primary and continuous human cell cultures, infectious co-cultures, in vitro and/or in vivo models of inflammation, mass-spectrometry based metabolomics, flow cytometry and MIQE accepted real time PCR. Excellent basic knowledge and interest in innate immunology.

Post II: Junior Research Fellow (JRF)

Salary: 31,000/- per month + HRA (24%)

Duration: 3 months (extendible to 2 years)

Essential qualifications: M.Sc. in Microbiology or Biotechnology with at least an aggregate of 55% marks. Minimum 1 year laboratory experience in BSL-2 microbiology, biofilms, basic mammalian cell culture and molecular biology.

Desirable: Bacterial cloning and expression, real time PCR, immunocytochemistry and western blots. Excellent basic knowledge and interest in innate immunology.

Post III: Scientific Assistant

Salary: 20,000 +24% HRA :24800

Duration: 12 months (extendible to 2 years)

Essential qualifications: Candidate should have M.Sc. in any branch of Life Sciences with at least an aggregate of 50 % marks.

Desirable: experience in handling human clinical samples, microbiology, laboratory management, making general laboratory reagents and media. Basic molecular biology skills.

How to apply: Eligible candidates for both the posts may apply by sending their application along with the detailed CV, self-attested copies of the certificates and proof of research experience (if any) through email on or before September, 2023 by e-mail to ghoshd@jnu.ac.in (Dr. Dipankar Ghosh, Principal Investigator). Candidates must mention “Project position in Neonatal Sepsis” in subject of email. The selection committee will shortlist candidates based on the advertised criteria and only shortlisted candidates will be intimated for an offline interview.

Application Deadline: Application will be accepted till 06 October 2023.

Note:

Candidates must ascertain eligibility before applying. Incomplete applications and/or applications from ineligible candidates will be rejected without intimation.
The details regarding the interview and final selection will be notified through email only to successful candidates.
TA/DA will not be paid for appearing in interview.
The initial appointment will be for the shortest period mentioned and extended to the duration of the project.
The appointment may be curtailed/extended or terminated anytime without notice based on the candidate's performance by the project PI and discretion of the competent authority

Special Centre for Molecular Medicines
Jawaharlal Nehru University

Applications are invited for the following purely temporary posts in the DST-SERB-CRG Sponsored Project No. SPG/2021/004179 entitled "Synthesis of Novel 1,1-Disubstituted C-nucleosides/nucleotides as potential Antiviral Drug Candidates Targeting RNA-Dependent RNA polymerase".

1. Junior Research Fellow (One) Rs 31000/- + 24% HRA.

Essential Qualification
• Master’s degree in Chemical Sciences, Biochemistry with strong academic record. The student qualified NET-LS/GATE will be given preference.
• Candidates should have research experience in the organic synthesis, viral assay, biochemical assay.

Start Date of Advertisement: 15th September 2023
End Date of Advertisement: 30th September 2023

The position is completely temporary and co-terminus with project. The fellowship will be per sanction in the project and/or as per. The initial appointment may be for three months or as per recommendation of the selection committee, which can be extended on the basis of assessment of the candidate’s performance and discretion of the competent authority. The eligible candidates may further be shortlisted based on the qualification/experience depending on the total number of applications received. The candidates should have experience of industrial field. JNU may select candidates against the above post depending upon the qualifications and experience of the candidate and reserves the right to relax any of the qualification(s) in case the candidate is found otherwise well qualified by the Selection Committee.

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