PDRA - Characterization of androgen receptor antagonists

About the Role

A postdoc position is available in Professor Zhang’s lab at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), Diamond Light Source, UK. The post is funded by a DoD award on “Characterization of a novel class of non-competitive androgen receptor antagonists”.

Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is currently incurable and is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Androgen-independent activation of the androgen receptor (AR) remains the major driving force leading to CRPC. Structural and functional analysis of a novel class of AR antagonists capable of inducing AR degradation in the nucleus may lead to new therapeutics for CRPC. The posts will take part in the collaborative team research to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of the inhibition and degradation of nuclear AR by this class of antagonists using structural biology approaches.

We are seeking highly motivated scientist to conduct high-resolution structural analysis of AR in complexes with its antagonists. The post is based in eBIC, the UK national cryoEM facility, which provides scientists with state-of-the-art instruments and expertise in cryoEM. Currently eBIC houses five Titan Krios, a Talos Arctica, and two Glacios, two cryoFIB/SEM instruments (Scios and Aquilos 2), and a Leica cryoCLEM for correlative light and electron microscopy (