Description du poste
The Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) is a branch of the Max Delbrück Center on the campus of Heidelberg University. The Max Delbrück Center and the Mannheim and Heidelberg Medical Faculties of the University of Heidelberg jointly founded HI-TAC. HI-TAC will develop a unique systemic approach in the emerging field of cardiovascular communication biology, which is operationally designated as AngioCardioScience. Translational research at HI-TAC aims at developing a new scientific program centered on communication biology and dedicated to understanding cardiovascular functions on a systemic level during homeostasis, aging and pathological conditions. It will exploit its findings in the area of cross-organ interactions for the development of translational applications.
HI-TAC is currently in the build up phase and will provide a modern place for 100 scientists to conduct research and work in Heidelberg and Mannheim. Join our team and build up the HI-TAC together with the Max Delbrück Center and the University of Heidelberg.
### **Job Description**
**Establish your independent research group and help shape the future of AngioCardioScience.**
We invite applications from outstanding early-career scientists with a strong scientific track record and a compelling vision for an independent research program that advances our understanding of cardiovascular biology. We particularly encourage innovative and interdisciplinary approaches, including perspectives from fields beyond traditional cardiovascular research.
Areas of particular interest include the cardiac microenvironment, cardiac/vascular metabolism and mechanobiology, cardiac/vascular-immune interactions and inflammatory pathways, cardiovascular malformations, inter-organ interactions, regeneration, and aging. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary approaches that explore how vascular and cardiac cells communicate with their surrounding tissues and contribute to physiological function, tissue homeostasis and disease.
### **Requirements**
* A PhD or MD/PhD degree and a strong record of scientific achievements.
* An original, ambitious and well-defined independent research vision.
* The potential to establish and lead a successful research group.
* Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research and scientific collaboration.
**What we offer**
* **Scientific independence:** The freedom to establish your own research group and pursue an ambitious, independent research program.
* **Shape a new institute:** A unique opportunity to contribute to HI-TAC's scientific identity, research directions and collaborative culture from an early stage.
* **Strong institutional support:** Generous start-up funding to establish and develop your independent research group, including resources for personnel, consumables and equipment, for up to nine years, subject to midterm review after four years.
* **Excellent research environment:** Access to state-of-the-art