Post-doctoral positions

Post-doctoral positions

available at the

Research Unit for Tropical Diseases of the

Christian de Duve

Institute of Cellular Pathology (ICP),

Brussels.

Several positions are available for young post-doctoral fellows who are interested in receiving additional training in one of the disciplines mentioned below.

The Research Unit for Tropical diseases (TROP), a subdivision of the laboratory of biochemistry of the UCL and headed by Fred R. Opperdoes, has an opening for one or more biochemists / enzymologists / molecular biologists.

The following topics are being studied in the TROP Unit: (i) the identification and characterisation of potential drug targets and the rational design of drugs for trypanosome-borne diseases such as sleeping sickness, Chagas' disease and Leishmaniasis; (ii), the biogenesis of the glycosome, a microbody involved in carbohydrate metabolism of the Trypanosomatidae; (iii) the study of the enzymes of the pentose-phosphate pathway in trypanosomatids.

Further information on the ICP and its research groups is available at the following web page: http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be:8080/, where also detailed information on the ICP fellowship programme can be found.

For further information contact Fred Opperdoes <opperdoes@trop.ucl.ac.be> or Paul Michels <michels@trop.ucl.ac.be>, either here at the meeting or by email.