Post Doctoral Research Associate - INTERNAL ONLY

King's College London, United Kingdom

Updated: 23 days ago
Location: Waterloo, ENGLAND
Deadline: 29 May 2024

Job id: 089986. Salary: £43,205 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 22 May 2024. Closing date: 29 May 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Institute of Pharmaceutical Science.

Contact details:Sylvia Dobbs. [email protected]

Location: Waterloo Campus. Category: Research.


THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY


About us:

Situated within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London, the Host Microbiome Interaction: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Research Group (HMI: CPT) serves as the heart of a multidisciplinary group, within and outside King’s Health Partners, and a clinical community dedicated to investigating the aetiopathology of Parkinson’s disease. The therapeutic potential to intervene against drivers and mediators is explored, with quantified outcomes on disease facets. Clinical research is centred at the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, in close association with the Department of Gastroenterology at King’s College Hospital.


About the role:

With collaborating laboratories, our main goal is to understand the impact of the gastrointestinal microbiome, with a trans-kingdom approach, and metabolome on disease facets.  We apply this knowledge to new strategies for halting progression and disease modification.

We seek a talented and highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to become part of our cooperative and energetic team, to continue development of a PCR screening method for a gastrointestinal pathogen and contribute to the trans-kingdom approach to the microbiome. The candidate would have the skills to interact with participants, obtaining questionnaire data and unobtrusive quantification relevant to disease facets, as well as highly developed laboratory and data handling and interpretation skills. Providing detailed record keeping for experiments and communicating regularly and effectively with co-workers is required, as is ability both to work independently, with precision and in compliance with high standards, and to actively supervise the less experienced. An ability to interact and learn is crucial.

Candidates should hold a PhD, or have successfully submitted, a PhD thesis, working in the fields of both clinical science and laboratory microbiology.

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 12 months.


 About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

  • PhD submitted / awarded in relevant clinical science-related fields
  • Experience with human sample processing and archiving, and molecular microbiology techniques.
  • Experience in assessing study participants by questionnaire and objective measurements.
  • Experience in presenting work
  • Experience in publishing scientific articles 
  • Good organisation skills and attention to detail
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines

    • Desirable Criteria

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative research environment.
  • Familiarity with bioinformatics tools and data analysis methods for omics data

    • Downloading a copy of our Job Description

    Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

    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.


    Further information

    We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

    We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. 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.

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    We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

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