# Postdoctoral Associate - Hwang Lab

The Hwang laboratory at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral associate to investigate the host genetic landscape of human papillomavirus (HPV)-driven cellular immortalization and transformation. Infection with 'high-risk' HPVs causes cervical cancer, oropharyngeal cancer, and other anogenital cancers. Although vaccination could prevent the majority of high-risk HPV infections, vaccine uptake rates remain low in many parts of the world, and HPV vaccination cannot treat precancerous lesions or cancers. Therefore, HPV-associated cancers present an urgent public health need: in 2022 alone, there were about 660,000 new cases of cervical cancer and about 350,000 deaths worldwide, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer and cancer deaths in women. The essential drivers of HPV-mediated carcinogenesis are the HPV E6 and E7 oncoproteins, and inhibiting key transforming activities of these oncoproteins has high potential to treat HPV-positive cancers. To understand and ultimately inhibit HPV-driven carcinogenesis, our team has performed genome-scale CRISPRi and CRISPRa screens in primary human cells, and the project is now advancing to validatin

- **Id**: 3709507
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/broad-institute-postdoctoral-associate-hwang-lab>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T22:20:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:24:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 9
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4882
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- **Benefits**: Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Bioinformatics, Genomics & Genetic Testing, Nonprofits & Foundations, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 15717
- **Name**: Broad Institute
- **Domain**: broadinstitute.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/broad-institute>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Avature

## Technologies

- **CRISPR** — Optional: no
- **Molecular Cloning** — Optional: no
- **Next-Generation Sequencing** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 9

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T22:20:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 61
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.774
- **P room**: 0.788
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 12
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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