Professor/Associate Professor (Honorary Consultant) in Medical Oncology

About the role
This post arises due to the recent retirement of the Professor/Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology.  It is based within a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and clinicians in the Leicester Cancer Research Centre (Department of Genetics and Genome Biology) & the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, which has a national and international reputation in translational and clinical cancer research.
As a high calibre clinician/scientist, possessing full GMC registration and a licence to practice you will have a research profile of well-established national/international standing and be a significant research income generator.  You will enhance impact activity and develop a programme of high-quality research, within the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Cancer Theme to develop and enhance cross-cutting research between Cancer and other themes including the Data Innovation and Lifestyle themes.  In addition, you will supervise a team of clinical and nonclinical postgraduate and undergraduate researchers and contribute to teaching delivery within the College. 
In addition to five academic programmed activities, you will also deliver five programmed activities delivering to the Consultant clinical medical oncology service at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. 
About you
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Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to:
University - Prof. Jacqui Shaw at [email protected] and Prof. Karen Brown at [email protected]. 

UHL - Dr Shams Ul-Islam Muhammad (Head of Service) at [email protected].  
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