Postdoc: Bridging the Molecular Biology and Epidemiology of Cancer Development

Cancer touches nearly every life. Across Europe, around one in two people will face a cancer diagnosis at some point, and behind every diagnosis are partners, parents, children, and friends whose lives are deeply affected as well. Yet most of our efforts still begin after cancer is diagnosed. What if we could understand its causes so well that we could prevent far more cases before they ever begin?

Your job

At the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to help answer that question. Together with Dr Martijn Kolijn and Prof. Roel Vermeulen, you will investigate how environmental and lifestyle exposures the exposome shape cancer risk, often years before a tumour is ever found. By connecting molecular signals measured in blood long before diagnosis to the biology of the tumours that eventually appear, you will help build the evidence base for a more preventive, biology-driven approa...