Chinese medical school launches recruitment programme
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing says it is looking for 100 postdoctoral researchers and professors
- Search for new talent comes at the end of Donald Trump’s US presidency, a period marked by strained relations between scientific communities in China and America
One of China’s top medical schools has launched a recruitment campaign seeking postdoctoral researchers, and assistant, associate and tenured professors.
The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing said at a promotional event on Tuesday that it was looking to fill 100 positions in the first stage of a rolling campaign.
People from around the world were welcome to apply subject to them having the “academic qualifications and work experience on a par with international standards”, it said, adding that there was an upper age limit of 35 for the postdoctoral research positions.
The successful candidates would receive research start-up funds for five years and the opportunity to become research supervisors, it said.
Wang Chen, the school’s president, said at the online event that candidates were sought both in the fields in which it was already experienced and also new areas, for which “we will provide the platform and essentials to open [it] up”.
