CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Vaccine Development

• Do you have a PhD in biochemistry, microbiology, or virology?
• Contribute to the Immune Resilience Future Science Platform
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation!

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

This position will form part of the Immune Resilience Future Science Platform (FSP). The Immune Resilience FSP aims to harness the fundamental understanding of the immune system to develop novel strategies and platforms that will build resilience in animals to combat disease and parasite challenges.

The successful candidate will lead the development of a vaccine candidate against African swine fever virus (ASFV) using a novel vaccine platform strategy developed at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness to stimulate specific antibody and T-cell responses in a targeted manner. The Fellow will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the project, working with the project team to identify appropriate antigens, optimise vaccine platform components, and develop a prototype to be used for in vivo immunogenicity studies.