Team
We are looking for people who are excited by an unexpected result and disciplined enough to figure out what it actually means.
Meet the Shah Lab! We have open positions for research technicians, graduate students, and postdocs. If you think you’d be a good fit, please send Viral your CV/Resume, your interests, and overall goals. See below for more details.
Join Us!
The lab is early, the questions are open, and we’re excited to get after it! If you are curious, rigorous, a team player, and care about doing science that matters, there is a place for you here. We welcome all stages. See below for more details for each position and message us here.
Postdocs
We are recruiting postdoctoral fellows who want to build something, not just contribute to something already built. Joining a new lab is a calculated risk, and we take that seriously. What we offer in return is direct access, genuine investment in your independence, and a scientific program distinctive enough to anchor your own identity as a researcher. You will have consistent mentorship from a physician-scientist who has navigated this career path recently and takes your next step as seriously as the lab's output. We are committed to supporting K99 applications, first-author publications, and whatever comes next — faculty, industry, or otherwise. If you are drawn to functional readouts, mechanistic questions, and the opportunity to shape a program from the ground up, reach out.
Graduate Students
The Shah lab is affiliated with _ and is actively recruiting graduate students for rotations. Our work spans mouse genetics, live-cell imaging, mucociliary transport assays, ion transport physiology, bacterial killing and infection models, and human airway models — techniques that most regeneration biology and physiology labs use separately, but not together. A rotation here is designed to be substantive: you will run real experiments, engage directly with the central questions, and leave with an honest sense of whether this is the right fit for your thesis work. We also have frequent co-meetings with _ labs, so you will be part of a broader scientific community from day one. The central question — why regeneration restores cell identity but not tissue function — is tractable, important, and genuinely unsolved. If you want to understand *why* something happens and not just *that* it happens, come do a rotation and see if it fits.
Research Staff
We are looking for a research technician who wants to do real science, not support it from a distance. This position is structured to be a genuine career step, not a gap year. You will work directly with the PI and other lab members on experiments from design to execution, learn techniques across mouse genetics, confocal imaging, and functional physiology assays, and be a genuine contributor to the lab's output. Co-authorship and lead authorship are earned by contribution, and we write strong letters for staff pursuing graduate school, medical school, or professional programs. Prior experience is helpful but less important than intellectual curiosity, technical rigor, and passion for the work. If you want a position where your work matters from day one, come on over.
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate research is one of the best things you can do for your scientific development, and we love to foster that. Summer projects are a great entry point. Students who can commit consistent time during the school year are the ones who contribute most meaningfully — including on manuscripts. If you are interested in what we do and want to learn what research actually looks like, reach out.
