LVPEI Postdoc Research Positions Available

Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation

L V Prasad Eye Institute

Hyderabad

Post Doctoral Research Positions Available

Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation (HERF) which is the research arm of the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad (LVPEI) is a DBT Centre of Excellence for Translational Research on Eye Diseases. We have a basic research facility with 12 scientists working in all areas of eye biology and vision, 40 clinical faculty and about 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Our research is funded by DBT/DST/CSIR/ICMR as well as international agencies such as the Wellcome Trust UK, Champalimaud Foundation Portugal, NIH USA, VISION CRC of Australia, and several bi-national collaborative programmes.

We are recognized by the University of Hyderabad BITS-Pilani for the Ph.D. degree programme. We are looking to recruit research personnel in the areas of interest given below. Positions are available for immediate recruitment, and will be filled following interviews.

Sl. no. Position Qualification Experience

1 Post Doctoral Fellows

Ph.D. in Biology and Pharmacology

Fresh or 1 year experience

The selected candidates will be working for ‘UK-India Centre for Advanced Technology for minimizing the indiscriminate use of antibiotics’. The programme is funded jointly by the Department of Biotechnology, India and Medical Research Council, UK. The position will be for 3 years and will involve spending some time in UK as part of the exchange programme.

PDRA 1 will work on ex vivo and animal models of corneal infections while PDRA 2 will work on experiments related to pharmacokinetics. The remunerations for the fellows will be as per the guidelines of the DBT. For further details on the research work, list of publications and other relevant matters kindly visit the website www.lvpei.org, and click on ‘research’. Please send your detailed CV and research interest to Elena D. Roopchandra, Assistant Director-BHERC, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Road Number 2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034; e-mail ID: elena@lvpei.org on or before 20 March 2015.