Multiple positions are available at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen. More information about the department can be found here.
Successful candidates will join the project “Serial synchrotron crystallography studies of amino acid transporters for drug discovery” funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF MicroMAX Collaborative Research Grants). The project focuses on the structural characterization of human membrane proteins for drug discovery using X-ray crystallography at the MicroMAX beamline.
Our research
We are a growing international group with diversity and equity as important priorities, keeping quality as the defining criterion. We focus on elucidating the structure and function of human membrane proteins to understand their roles in physiology and disease and to enable therapeutic targeting. We have contributed to key methodological advances in membrane protein structural biology, including the development of serial synchrotron crystallography approaches for human transporters and recent breakthroughs in determining cryo-EM structures of sub-70 kDa membrane proteins without fiducial markers. The group combines expertise in protein production, structural determination using synchrotron and cryo-EM methods, and structure-guided ligand discovery, and aims to establish broadly applicable strategies for targeting SLC transporters in human disease.
The funds supporting the ASH-Lab are provided by the Lundbeck Foundation and the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Questions
For further information please contact Azadeh Shahsavar; ash@sund.ku.dk.
Foreign applicants may find this link useful: www.ism.ku.dk (International Staff Mobility).
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2026, 23.59pm CET
For more information and to apply for the Assistant Professor position, please see this page.
For more information and to apply for the Postdoctoral Researcher position, please see this page.
