Research Assistant in Gene Editing of Human Stem Cells

Academic Positions

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Cdi
Posted June 14, 2026

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

is a multidisciplinary research group of 1520 members, including postdoctoral fellows, PhD and masters students, and technical staff. We are equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, encompassing a comprehensive preclinical laboratory at Biomedicum and a dedicated clinical research unit at Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge. Using these resources, we focus on understanding how alterations in human white adipocyte function contribute to cardiometabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and atherosclerosis.

Your mission

We are recruiting a research assistant to lead a project aimed at establishing a gene-editing pipeline in mesenchymal stem cells using Cas9-mediated engineering. The edited cells will subsequently be differentiated into adipocytes to enable studies of protein localization, interaction partners, and function in human fat c...