Research Associate -Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics – INTERNAL ONLY

Job id: 082486. Salary: £ 43,205 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 15 January 2024. Closing date: 21 January 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Randall Cell & Molecular Biophysics.

Contact details:Professor Maddy Parsons. [email protected]

Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Research.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a large team working on a Wellcome Leap project to understand tissue state evolution of time in triple negative breast cancer patients. The post holder will perform a critical function in performing long-term imaging using advanced microscopy approaches to quantify organoid and tissue responses to chemotherapy. The post holder will help with post-acquisition analysis pipelines to enable accurate quantification of cell phenotypes over time. The post holder will work with a large inter-disciplinary team both at King’s and with our global partners to deliver new insight into TNBC tumour progression and help identify novel routes for personalised medicine approaches. 

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract from 12/2/24 to 29/09/24.

This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

• Performing long-term fluorescence microscopy of organoids using advanced non-commercial instruments
• Asist in development of image analysis pipelines for 3D image reconstruction and quantification
• Assist with optimization of imaging acquisition protocols to improve analysis
• Analyse data and provide this in a suitable format for onward interrogation and incorporation into predictive algorithm development pipelines by other teams 
• Work closely with other Welcome leap team members to deliver on core goals of the project 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible