Laboratory assistent & QC

  • Laboratory assistant in Medicine

    Company Örebro Universitet in Örebro
    04.05.2025 Updated on: 06.05.2025

    We are looking for a laboratory assistant in medicine for a fixed-term employment at the School of Medical Sciences.BackgroundEmerging research shows that a disturbed gut-brain axis is involved in the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease (PD). The hallmark protein, alpha-synuclein, is highly present in the gut and possibly the root cause of several gastrointestinal issues that PD patients experience many years before developing the motoric symptoms characteristic for the disease. Our interest lies in whether alpha-synuclein can be transported from the gut to the brain enclosed in EVs. We are therefore interested in developing techniques for 1) identifying alpha-synuclein in the cargo of EVs 2) exploring gut-specific EV markers that can help to differentiate between different vesicular po...