
Arc Institute is a nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, collaborating with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. It operates on a unique model providing fully funded, no-strings-attached multi-year support to scientists to pursue curiosity-driven research in complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and immune dysfunction. The Institute invests heavily in developing experimental and computational technologies through dedicated Technology Centers focused on machine learning, genome engineering, cellular and animal disease models, and multi-omics. Arc aims to accelerate scientific progress and translate discoveries into patient impact by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and long-term research agendas. It plans to scale to approximately 250 scientific personnel within three years, emphasizing innovative organizational models and translational infrastructure to optimize life sciences impact.

Arc Institute is a nonprofit biomedical research organization headquartered in Palo Alto, California, collaborating with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. It operates on a unique model providing fully funded, no-strings-attached multi-year support to scientists to pursue curiosity-driven research in complex diseases such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and immune dysfunction. The Institute invests heavily in developing experimental and computational technologies through dedicated Technology Centers focused on machine learning, genome engineering, cellular and animal disease models, and multi-omics. Arc aims to accelerate scientific progress and translate discoveries into patient impact by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and long-term research agendas. It plans to scale to approximately 250 scientific personnel within three years, emphasizing innovative organizational models and translational infrastructure to optimize life sciences impact.
About Arc Institute
The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution conducting curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.
While the prevailing university research model has yielded many tremendous successes, we believe in the importance of institutional experimentation as a way to make progress. These include:
Arc has scaled to over 350 people to date. With $650M+ in committed funding and a state of the art new lab facility in Palo Alto, Arc will continue to grow quickly in the coming years.
About the position
The Gilbert Lab is looking for motivated, hard-working and curious applicants. Our expertise is in synthetic biology, functional genomics and epigenetics. We have a long standing interest in using CRISPR approaches to control transcription. We are focused on utilizing our expertise to tackle big problems in human biology such as how cellular identity and the epigenome are determined and maintained. Lastly, we are focused on leveraging our expertise in epigenetics and synthetic biology to design new therapeutic strategies in the context of cancer, viral biology and neurodegeneration.
The questions we ask:
The approach we take: CRISPR screens, high throughput synthetic biology, perturb-seq, in vitro disease models including iPSC models and primary cells, in vivo disease models.
Post-docs will be encouraged to lead independent projects resulting in high impact publications, present at conferences and prepare for long-term careers in academia or industry.
About you
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Requirements
The minimum base salary for this position is $80,000. Base salary for this role is determined by how many months of relevant postdoctoral experience a successful candidate has. Base salary for this role is not negotiable.