Fwd: Medical Bioinformatics Fellowships available

[Johnston, Caroline]

Job Opportunity from Jacky Pallas at UCL:

 

 

Medical Bioinformatics Career Development Fellows

UCL, QMUL, LSHTM, Crick, Sanger, EBI, KCL

 

Salary £41,430 - £48,873 per annum , inclusive of London allowance and depending on experience.

An outstanding opportunity is available for computational researchers to join a world-leading group of biomedical research universities and institutes. We are recruiting new junior group leaders with expertise in approaches such asbioinformatics, genomics, image analysis or health informatics, and offering the opportunity to work with biomedical research groups in cancer, cardiovascular, rare diseases, neuroscience, and infection and immunology.

We seek to recruit and develop the best early career scientists, supporting them in an environment that fosters academic excellence and creativity to become the leaders of the future. Fellows will have a choice of host institution among the partners and will receive generous start-up funding.

The consortium of Medical Bioinformatics partners offers an outstanding environment for computational research. There are excellent opportunities for wet/dry collaborations across the range of biomedical and clinical research disciplines, supported by a strategic alliance with major UK initiatives such as the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Genomics England. There may be the possibility for Fellows to be based at the Farr Institute London or within Genomics England depending on skillsets offered and research interest. The successful Fellows will have access to excellent computational facilities including a state-of-the-art data centre, eMedLab.

 

Successful candidates will be expected to have (i) a PhD (or equivalent research-related degree), (ii) an excellent publication record, (iii) a novel and challenging research agenda that will advance the strategic objectives of the consortium partners, (iv) clear leadership potential.

The Fellowships are funded by the Medical Research Council until March 2019 with the possibility of a further 2 years from the host institution, subject to performance.

  

Further details of the post, the online application form and who to contact with queries regarding the vacancy are at  HTTP://bit.ly/1vtRrPb

The closing date for applications is 5 October 2014.

Interviews will be held during the week commencing 3 November 2014.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jacky Pallas

Director, UCL Research Platforms

Office of the Vice-Provost (Research) and

School of Life and Medical Sciences

www.ucl.ac.uk/platforms   @uclplatforms

UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Tel. +44 (0)20 7679 6292 (internal 46292)