Medical Doctorate in Translational and Clinical Research 80-100%

The Research Group Kohler of the University Hospital Zurich have an open MD position available in patient centric clinical research. The focus is on clinical trials and translational breath research. You will be part of an interdisciplinary team and contribute to different projects in the Exhalomics Network with multiple partners and drive the development of personalized breath analysis in Switzerland.
The Research group Kohler is affiliated in the Department of Pulmonology at the University Hospital Zürich (USZ) and at the Faculty of Medicine at University of Zürich (UZH). In over ten years of research Prof. Dr. med. Malcolm Kohler focuses on clinical research in lung diseases especially Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With intensifying the research in modern breath analysis, the research field becomes broader. Thus, the research is now focused on different patient centric clinical questions and modern breath analysis in therapeutic drug monitoring or disease detection and monitoring. Examples are breath analysis of lung cancer patients and TDM via breath from patients with anticonvulsive medications. Prof. Kohler is Co-founder of the Zürich Exhalomics HMZ Flagship project and the PhD Program Clinical Science which is affiliated at the Zürich Life Science Graduate School. He has a strong record of supervision of MD or PhD students.

Your tasks: 
 

• Conduction of a chosen dissertation project (design, plan, conduct and publish)
• Recruiting of patients
• Performing of breath analysis
• Designing and/or amend of clinical trials under supervision