Job Post: Junior Researcher at JNU, New Delhi in ICMR funded project [Monthly Salary Rs. 38k]: Apply by Nov 3

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public central university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and research emphasis on liberal arts and applied sciences.

Applications are invited for the post of JRF in the ICMR funded project titled ‘Mechanisms of Retinal Degeneration in Retinitis Pigmentosa Type 12: Role of the crumbs-homology proteins-1 and -2’ in the laboratory of Dr Saima Aijaz, Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU, New Delhi 110067.

Essential Qualifications

The applicant must have an MSc degree in Life Sciences with a minimum of 60% marks or equivalent and should have qualified UGC-CSIR, UGC-NET (including lectureship), GATE OR a national level examination conducted by central government departments/institutions/agencies such as DBT, DST, ICMR, MHRD, IISc, IIT, and IISER. Additionally, the candidate should have one year experience of working in a life science laboratory.

Desirable Qualifications

JNU encourages candidates having previous experience in cloning, protein expression and purification; mammalian cell culture, bacterial culture and fluorescence microscopy to apply.

Salary: Rs. 31,000 plus 24% HRA per month.

Duration

The post is co-terminus with the project and the selected candidate will be appointed on a purely temporary basis initially for a period of one year which will be renewed, based on satisfactory performance, for a maximum period of three years.

How to apply?

Interested candidates may send their applications by email only. Further, JNU will not accept hard copies of applications. Applications must include the following:

(i) cover letter,

(ii) brief resume mentioning the name, date of birth and address of the candidate,

(iii) essential qualifications,

(iv) desirable qualifications,

(v) testimonials,

(vi) previous work experience,

(vii) self-attested copies of certificates and

(viii) name, email and address of two referees, in a single pdf file.

Applicants should submit their applications via email to s_aijaz@mail.jnu.ac.in latest by 3rd November 2020. The subject line of the email should read as “Application for the Post of JRF in ICMR Project”.

For more details, contact

Dr Saima Aijaz

(Principal Investigator),

Special Centre for Molecular Medicine,

Jawaharlal Nehru University,

New Delhi-110067

E-mail: s_aijaz@mail.jnu.ac.in

Note from JNU

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed online and the date of the interview will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates through email/phone. JNU reserves the right to relax any of the qualification criteria in case the candidate is found otherwise well qualified by the Selection Committee.