Job post: Postdoctoral Fellow (CEVR-R090) / Research Associate(CEVR-R091) / (CEVR-R092) Research Assistant [Appointment period: contract of 12 months to max 36 months]

Organisation background: Centre for Eye and Vision Research Limited (CEVR) is a research collaboration between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada. It will be located at the Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong. It will be the first global hub performing ground-breaking research in five key areas – myopia and eye growth, ocular drug discovery and delivery, vision enhancement, tear film and ocular surface and advanced optometric technology.

The mission of CEVR is to generate technologies to prevent vision loss in the aging population and preserve healthy vision.

Research study background:

Our research goals include the development of non-invasive drug delivery methods based on contact lens and eye drops with extended drug retention time and improved therapeutic efficacy. Molecular and materials engineering approaches will be used to achieve these goal including the use of DNA aptamers, molecularly imprinted polymers, hydrogels and liposomes.

Required skills and job duty:

The appointees will assist the project leaders in the research project : “Spherical nucleic acids for delivery of ocular related drugs” The tasks include project development, study design/protocol, ethics application, experimental setup, data collection, data analysis and preparation of manuscript. Preference will be given to candidate who has the experience in the following areas: nucleic acids research, liposomes, hydrogels, cell and animal studies.

Applicants should also have a good command of spoken and written English.

Qualification

Applicants for the Postdoctoral Fellow posts should have a doctoral degree or an equivalent qualification in Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacy, Vision Science, Ophthalmology, Chemical Technology, Health Technology, Rehabilitation or other related disciplines.

Applicants for the Research Associate posts should have a master’s degree or an equivalent qualification in one of the said disciplines.

Applicants for the Research Assistant posts should have an honours degree or an equivalent qualification in one of the said disciplines.

The appointees shall be working in Hong Kong. Overseas graduate is welcome to apply, the qualification awarding institution should be the top 100 institutions for STEM-related

subjects in QS/Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni/Times Higher Education world university rankings. (details here)

Enquiry

Applicants may contact Prof. Man-sau Wong (man-sau.wong@polyu.edu.hk) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University or Prof Juewen Liu (liujw@uwaterloo.ca) of the University of Waterloo for enquiry.

Remuneration

A highly competitive remuneration package will be offered. Applicants are invited to send the application form (download here), CV and expected salary to the email career@cevr.hk.