Scholarship: Fully-funded
Degree: Bachelor, Master
Nationality: International Students
Location: China
Application deadlines: Open
Scholarship Description:
Institute of Modern Biology, Nanjing University (IMB)
Established in July 2020 in Nanjing, the IMB focuses on innovative biomedical research. It supports pioneering and systematic scientific exploration, aiming to become a world-class biomedical research center with recognized academic authorities and a scholarly research environment. The institute operates under a director-responsibility system and a tenure-track/tenured professorship model, with independent personnel and financial authority. It aligns its professor recruitment, academic evaluation, promotion, and graduate training systems with top international universities.
Professor Liu Xijuan
Dr. Liu Xijuan, a professor and doctoral advisor, is a recipient of the National High-level Talent Youth Project (2023 Overseas Young Talent). She earned her Ph.D. from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in July 2017 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lineberger Cancer Research Center, University of North Carolina. In September 2022, she became a Research Associate and joined Nanjing University’s IMB in 2023.
Professor Liu’s research focuses on oxygen sensing pathways, protein hydroxylation modifications, epigenetics, and tumorigenesis. She has published 23 papers as the first author in journals such as Molecular Cell (2020), Nature Genetics (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022), Seminars in Cancer Biology (2023), PLOS Pathogens (2017), and Virologica Sinica (2017), and contributed to one book.
She discovered histone hydroxylation modifications, naming it H3P16oh, published in Nature Genetics in 2022. This finding enriches the understanding of oxygen sensing pathways and opens a new area connecting oxygen sensing, histone hydroxylation, signaling pathway regulation, and tumorigenesis. Nature Genetics invited Dr. James Nathan from Cambridge University, a renowned expert in oxygen sensing biology, to write a “News & Views” piece on this discovery (Nature Genetics, volume 54, pages 1585–1586). Professor Liu also leads a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense on kidney cancer.
For more details, visit the research group’s webpage:
IMB Research Group
Available Subjects:
- Molecular Biology / Cell Biology / Biochemistry
Eligibility criteria:
- Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in biology, medicine, or a related field, with a background in molecular biology, cell biology, or biochemistry. Recent graduates interested in pursuing a master’s degree in the research group’s focus area are preferred.
- Responsibilities include purchasing and managing common laboratory reagents, maintaining laboratory instruments, and completing other experiment-related tasks assigned by the lab.
- Familiarity with research software is required, along with strong writing and reading skills in both Chinese and English, and good communication and teamwork abilities.
- Candidates should be detail-oriented, diligent, and hands-on, with a positive and proactive work attitude.
- The lab offers competitive compensation and research conditions based on Nanjing University regulations and the applicant’s capabilities; specific terms will be discussed during the interview.
Application Procedure:
Applicants should combine their resume, a brief outline of future research plans or directions, and relevant supporting documents into a single PDF file. Please send it to the email address [email protected] with the format “Name – Research Assistant Application.”
All application materials will be kept strictly confidential and will not be returned. Candidates who pass the initial review will be contacted for an interview. We look forward to your application!
