Location: Los Angeles, CA
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Job #JPF11018 - Medicine-Pulmonary Disease / David Geffen School Of Medicine / UCLA POSITION OVERVIEW **Salary range:** See Table 23 in the UC Salary Scales. A reasonable estimate for this position is $69,073-$82,836. APPLICATION WINDOW **Open date:** May 8, 2026 **Next review date:** Monday, Jun 8, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. **Final date:** Tuesday, Jun 30, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. POSITION DESCRIPTION We are seeking applications from qualified candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Dr. John Belperio, an NIH-funded laboratory within the UCLA Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. We are looking for an M.D. or Ph.D. with a biostatistical background to work on bulk RNAseq, ssRNAseq, citi seq, TCR, methylomics, microbiome, snRNAseq, and proteomics to perform analyses via vertical platforms for predicting lung transplant allograft injuries and chronic rejection. The candidate will also have an immunology background to work with mice models and human samples for the discovery of pathways that lead to fibrosis, emphysema, or granulomas. Our research program focuses on lung transplant with the goal of inducing murine tolerance via hematopoietic mixed chimerism without radiation in the heterotopic tracheal transplant model of murine obliterative bronchiolitis and or the orthotopic lung transplant model. This would be work dealing with naive and allo-sensitized mice. We also study pathways of acute rejection via endothelial and epithelia cell rejection and pathways of chronic rejection/fibrosis. Our program also focuses on pulmonary fibrosis with the goal of discovering novel pathways using explanted lung tissues and performing proof of concept studies using the murine bleomycin model of lung fibrosis.