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Training
Post-doctoral training
The laboratory offers post-doctoral training in basic immunology pertinent
to vaccine development to graduates from M.D. or Ph.D programs. Postodoctoral
fellows are supported through federal funding or through fellowship from
private foundations.
Dr. H. Ertl is the PI of a NIH funded training grant. The faculty of this training grant is composed of a multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Wistar Institute, The University of Pennsylvania, The Veterinary School of The University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania. The training efforts within the realm of this award, which sponsors post-doctoral fellows, focuses on the Immunobiology of Vaccines. Laboratory training within the lab of one of the trainers is supported by a didactic lecture series on vaccines, training in ethics, grant writing and a laboratory course in state of the art techniques in immunology, virology and molecular biology.
Post-Doctoral Positions Available
The Wistar Institute is a world-renowned biomedical research facility at the University of Pennsylvania. Designated by the National Cancer Institute as a basic science cancer center, Wistar is dedicated to attracting the brightest minds in science to join our NIH funded training program entitled “Immunobiology of Vaccines.” Selected candidates will train with immunologists, virologists, structural biologists, and chemists in the field of vaccine design and development.
Candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents with a maximum of three years of post-doctoral training. Minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. If you posses the creativity, intelligence, and motivation necessary to meet the high expectations of our trainers, then please forward your C.V. and three letters of recommendation to: Christina Cole, The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Room 283, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits as well as the opportunity to learn from and interact with internationally recognized scientists from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania.
The training staff includes: Andrew Caton, Walter Gerhard, Hildegund C. Ertl, Jan Erikson, Katherine High, Christopher Hunter, Carl June, Ronen Marmorstein, Steven McMahon, Luis Montaner, Paul Offit, Steven Reiner, Phillip Scott, Louise Showe, Hao Shen, Wolfgang Weninger, and E. John Wherry
The Wistar Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer
www.wistar.org/ertl
The training staff includes:
Anrew Caton, Wistar Institute, immune responses to self-antigens
Jeffrey Bergelson, Children’s Hospital of Philedelphia,
development of novel vaccines carriers based on simian strains of adenovirus
Roger Burnett, Wistar Institute, development of novel
vaccines carriers based on simian strains of adenovirus
Jan Erikson, Wistar Institute, immune responses to self-antigens
Hildegund C.J. Ertl, Wistar Institute, recombinant vaccines
to rabies virus, DNA vaccines to rabies virus and human papillomavirus,
recombinant vaccines to HIV-1, modified peptide vaccines, adjuvants in
the form of cytokines and chemokines
Walter Gerhard, Wistar Institute, modified peptide vaccines
Katherine High, Children’s Hospital of Philedelphia,
development of vaccination strategies to induce immunological tolerance
prior to gene therapy
Christopher Hunter, School of Veterinary Medicine, University
of Pennsylvania, defining pathogenesis in Toxoplasma gondii
Carl June, University of Pennsylvania, developing adoptive
immunotherapies to genetically modified T cells treatment of cancer
Ronen Marmorstein, Wistar Institute, characterizing the
structure of oncoproteins
Stephen McMahon, Wistar Institute, identification of
neo-antigens expressed during tumor progression; L. Montaner,
Wistar Institute, recombinant vaccines to HIV-1
Paul Offit, Children’s Hospital of Philedelphia,
vaccines to rotavirus, adjuvants in the form of cytokines and chemokines
Laszlo Otvos, Wistar Institute, modified peptide vaccines
Ellen Pure, Wistar Institute, role of adhesion molecules
expressed in extracellular matrix on lymphocyte trafficking and metastisis
formation during cancer development
Philip Scott, School of Veterinary Medicine, University
of Pennsylvania, adjuvants in the form of cytokines and chemokines, elcucidating
factors that contribute to morbidity associated with Leishmania infection
Hao Shen, University of Pennsylvania, immune responses
to Listeria monocytogenous
Louise Showe, Wistar Institute, DNA vaccines to rabies
virus and human papillomavirus, microarray systems.
Graduate Training
Dr. H. Ertl is a member of the Biomedical Graduate Group of the University
of Pennsylvania and offers laboratory graduate training to student of
the Immunology Graduate Program and the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate
Program.
Undergraduate Training
The laboratory provides training to undergraduate students in form of
summer internships or within the realm of the work study program.
High School Student Training
Dr. H. Ertl is the chairperson of the High School Committee of The Wistar
Institute. The Wistar Institute feels committed to contribute to the Science
Education of students of the public high school system of the City of
Philadelphia. To this end the Committee organizes an annual assay contest
which takes place in spring, provides fellowships for 4 high school students
to work as interns in a laboratory at The Wistar Institute for 2 months
during the summer, and sponsors an afternoon symposium for high school
students in the fall.