Postdoctoral Research Associate: Drug Development Targeting Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease University of Illinois - Chicago

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Drug Development Targeting Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Drug Development Targeting Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease

Hiring Department : Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Location : Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID : 1035736

Posting Close Date : 7/18/2025

Salary: Salary will follow NIH guidelines for Postdoctoral Fellows. Salary guidelines can be viewed here:

Career Level Annual Salary
Postdoc 0 $62,232
Postdoc 1 $62,652
Postdoc 2 $63,120
Postdoc 3 $65,640

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation's preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent 'Best Colleges' rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

Benefits eligible positions include a comprehensive benefits package which offers: Health, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability & AD&D insurance; a defined benefit pension plan; paid leaves such as Vacation, Holiday and Sick; tuition waivers for employees and dependents. Click for a complete list of Employee Benefits .

Position Summary

The laboratory of Dr. Steven J. Ackerman, in association with the labs of Drs. Vadim Gaponenko, Sojin Shikano and Jalees Rehman in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in the College of Medicine at University of Illinois Chicago, is seeking a motivated post-doctoral candidate to work on the development of novel chemokine receptor biased antagonists targeting neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration and memory loss in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). We have a new grant from the Alzheimer's Drug Development Foundation (ADDF)-Harrington Foundation Scholar Award to further develop novel CCR3-targeting peptides and small molecule biased antagonists as therapeutics that inhibit neuroinflammation, an early and chronic component in the development of AD. The candidate will work on this project as well as therapeutics targeting other chemokine receptors of interest in AD pathogenesis. Links to our laboratories are as follows:

Ackerman Lab,

Gaponenko Lab,

Shikano Lab,

Rehman Lab,

Duties & Responsibilities