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This position is funded by a donation from the Högbom-Cocozza Research Foundation to support the employment of postdoctoral researchers conducting research in medicine and health.
Work assignments
Your work will entail the investigation of how Wnt signaling, a cell-to-cell communication pathway conserved across the animal kingdom, acts as regulator of cell fate. While the mechanisms of canonical Wnt pathway have been extensively studied, it is yet not understood how nuclear protein β-catenin can drive the wide arrays of transcriptional responses depending on the context or developmental stage. You will focus on different cancer types that display a constitutively active Wnt pathway, and investigate how this pathway contributes to heterogenous cell behavior and ability to self-renew, differentiate and migrate.
As postdoc, you will principally carry out research. A certain amount of teaching may be part of your duties, up to a maximum of 20% of working hours.
Qualifications
To be qualified to take employment as postdoc, you must have been awarded a doctoral degree or have a foreign degree that is deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree. This degree must have been awarded at the latest by the point at which LiU makes its decision to employ you.
Your doctoral degree must have been awarded no more than three years before the application deadline for this position. If there are special grounds, applicants who were awarded their doctoral degree earlier may also be considered, for example due to medical internship or specialist medical training, or various types of statutory leave. You must hold a doctoral degree awarded by a higher education institution other than Linköping University.
We are looking for someone with a PhD in a subject related to molecular biology. Alternatively, you have gained essentially corresponding knowledge in another way.
Among the required qualification, the applicant will possess experience with advanced cell culture systems, such as organoids from various organs. In addition to basic molecular biology (RT-qPCR, Western Blot, DNA cloning), the candidate must have experience with transcription factors profiling and single-cell transcriptomics analyses, and computational skills (e.g., R and Python).
Meritorious will be considered experience in Microscopy-based imaging, Immunohistochemistry, and cell culture differentiation protocols.
You are a curiosity-drive person, fascinated by the complexity of biological systems and their ability to self-organize. You are also drawn to teaching and supervision of younger students, and to work in cooperation in an internationally-oriented, competitive research group. Fluency in spoken and written English is required for this position.
The workplace
The Cantù Lab is located at the Division of Molecular Medicine and Virology, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, at the Medical Faculty of LiU.
The Lab is also part of the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine and the SciLifeLab.
If you wish to know more about our research, team, or professional values, please visit:
https://liu.se/en/research/cantu-lab and https://www.scilifelab.se/researchers/claudio-cantu/
The employment
The position is a full-time, fixed-term appointment for three years.
Within the framework of the appointment, the postdoctoral researcher may spend 6–12 months at a higher education institution abroad, funded by the Foundation.
Before the third year of the appointment, the postdoctoral researcher may apply to the Foundation for an independent research grant of approximately SEK 500,000. The grant is intended for a researcher who has the ambition and, in the Foundation’s assessment, the ability to establish an independent research environment.
The starting date will be agreed upon, with commencement during 2027.
Salary and employment benefits
The position is funded by the Högbom-Cocozza Research Foundation and carries a salary of SEK 43,000 per month.
More information about employee benefits is available here.
Union representatives
Information about union representatives, see Help for applicants.
Application procedure
Apply for the position by clicking the “Apply” button. Your application must be received no later than November 30, 2026.
Applications and documents received after the date above will not be considered.
Please attach your selected research publications electronically, in pdf or word format, in the application template. Research publications, e.g. monographs, which cannot be sent electronically should be sent in three sets by mail to the University Registrar at Linköping University, University Registrar, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden. The publications must be received by Linköping University no later than the deadline for application.
Please note that printed publications will not be returned. They will be archived at Linköping University.
In the event of a discrepancy between the English translation of the job announcement and the Swedish original, the Swedish version shall take precedent.
We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives – diversity enriches our work and helps us grow. Preserving everybody’s equal value, rights and opportunities is a natural part of who we are. Read more about our work with: Equal opportunities.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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Contact persons
Claudio Cantù, Professor, claudio.cantu@liu.se
Johanna Källming, HR-partner, hr@bvk.liu.se