Junior Research Fellow JRF In ARNF-sponsored Project

Position: Junior Research Fellow JRF in ARNF-sponsored project

Job Id: 3634

School: School of Natural Sciences (SNS)

Department: Life Sciences

Job Type: Contract

End Date: September 15, 2025

Junior Research Fellow JRF in ARNF-sponsored project

Job Details

Position: Junior Research Fellow JRF in ARNF-sponsored project

Job Id: 3634

School: School of Natural Sciences (SNS)

Department: Life Sciences

Job Type: Contract

End Date: September 15, 2025

Applications are invited for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in ARNF-sponsored project, "Exploiting the fitness cost of transforming growth factor-b signaling pathway-dependency of chemotherapy-resistant, senescent triple negative breast cancer cells: An evolution-guided therapeutic approach", under the Principal Investigator, Dr. Anindita Chakrabarty, Department of Life Sciences (DLS), School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE), Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, U.P.).

The position/s is temporary and is available immediately. Applications are accepted till 15th September 2025.

Required qualification: Post Graduate Degree in Basic Science with any National level Test (NET, GATE etc.) qualification or Graduate Degree in Professional Course with National Level Test qualification or Post Graduate Degree in Professional Course.

The candidate is required to have excellent hands-on experience in mammalian cell culture, zebrafish and rodent handling, qPCR, Western blot, confocal microscopy, recombinant protein expression and purification, UV-VIS spectroscopy, CD spectroscopy, and Mass spectrometry.

Fellowship: As per ARNF norm.

Duration: The contract shall remain in effect until October 9, 2026.

Project Description: The project aims to examine if TGF-b pathway inhibition can interfere with evolution of chemotherapy-resistance in Triple negative breast cancer.

Application and Interview: Applications with complete bio-data (with details of qualification i.e. examination passed, year, division, the percentage of marks from 10th board onwards, including work experience/dissertation) should be sent by email to Dr. Anindita Chakrabarty, Department of Life Sciences (DLS), School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE), Greater Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar, UP 201314, latest by September 15th, 2025.

Short-listed candidates will be informed for online interview via google meet/MS team. No TA/DA will be provided for appearing in this interview.

Interviews of eligible candidates will be conducted online between September 19th and 22nd, 2025.

Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (deemed to be University), National Capital Region (NCR)

Shiv Nadar University ), chosen as one of the ten private Institutions of Eminence (IoE) by the Government of India, is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused and student-centric institution that is bringing a paradigm shift in higher education in India through its innovative curriculum, cross-disciplinary thinking across a wide range of disciplines, and disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and innovation focus. The University is building an eco-system of knowledge to promote recognition of the inter-connectedness of ideas, systems and environments in the world inside the campus and those outside it. The core of the University consists of a select, world-class faculty with doctoral and postdoctoral experiences from ranked universities all over the world. The University currently has 5 Schools, 24 Departments and 7 Research Centers engaged in teaching, practice and research in disciplines as diverse as Engineering, Natural Sciences, Management & Entrepreneurship, and Humanities & Social Sciences, along with Art & Performing Arts, Design, Communication, and also Extended Education & Professional Development. The Schools offer Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees. The University is among a select group of green-field institutions in the country which were awarded the prestigious Atal Incubation Center grant by the NITI Aayog, Government of India, in the very first round in 2017.