Position SummaryA Postdoctoral Fellowship is available in the Stitziel Laboratory within the Division of Cardiology and Department of Medicine at WashU in St. Louis, USA. We seek a highly motivated, creative, independent, and enthusiastic scientist to continue our translational studies of the human genetic basis of cardiovascular disease.Our lab recently discovered that the novel extracellular matrix protein SVEP1 causally promotes cardiometabolic disease in humans and mice (Jung et al, Science Translational Medicine 2021) likely by interacting with the orphan receptor PEAR1 (Elenbaas et al, Nature Communications 2023). We seek a Postdoctoral Fellow with experience in animal models of cardiovascular disease and/or protein biochemistry to continue our work in