The Postdoctoral Research Associate independently interprets, organizes, executes, and coordinates research assignments under minimal supervision. The project focuses on the roles of chemokine network linking obesity and breast cancer by using mouse tumor models and knock-out models with in vivo and in vitro combination. He/she explores subject area and defines scope and selection of problems for investigation through conceptually related studies or series of projects of lesser scope. He/she supervises and trains lower level classifications lab personnel and students.