Research Fellow in Bioinformatics

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Job id: 086086. Salary: £51,974 to £56,283 per annum, including London weighting Allowance.

Posted: 11 March 2024. Closing date: 31 March 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Women & Children's Health.

Contact details:Rachel Tribe. [email protected]

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Research.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an internationally leading interdisciplinary team in the Department of Women & Children’s Health, King’s College London and work in collaboration with clinical researchers based in our NHS partners (Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts).

Funded by the King’s Health Partner’s Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM), this is a core post to support research generated by research teams within the CTM ‘Conception to Cradle’ programme.  Our research focuses on developing new treatments to tackle infertility and multiomics approaches (including transcriptomics, genomics, metagenomics etc.) to develop new predictors for pregnancy complications.   

The bioinformatician will work under the supervision of Prof. Rachel Tribe and Dr Alessandra Vigilante (lead of the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Hub for Applied Bioinformatics).

The postholder will provide support in the data integration analyses as well as statistical analysis of data. The main purpose of the role encompasses performing data integration and statistical analysis while offering comprehensive data-driven decision support by overseeing the cleaning, integration, analysis, and storage of diverse datasets.

We are looking for an ambitious candidate with established expertise in bioinformatics, specifically dealing with large data sets and data integration. Knowledge of python and R are essential.

For more information about the post, please contact Rachel Tribe ([email protected] ) or Alessandra Vigilante ([email protected] )

The Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course and Population Sciences provides leadership for the Conception-Cradle Programme, an interdisciplinary collaboration with members of King’s Health Partners.

The postholder will primarily be located in the FoLSM Hub for Applied Bioinformatics (HAB), Guy’s campus https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/the-hub-for-applied-bioinformatics-hab . There will be rotating sessions to meet with research teams in our other sites (e.g. St Thomas’ Hospital, Guy’s Hospital and King’s College Hospital).   https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps/our-departments/department-of-women-childrens-health .  

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract until 31st December 2026.

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

• Provide bioinformatics expertise to enable members of the ‘Conception to Cradle’ collaborative to achieve their research objectives.
• Data and statistical analysis
• Dataset integration
• Keep an excellent record of analysis
• Dataset and analysis storage
• Prepare and present data to colleagues and other scientists
• Contribute to the production of research reports and publications

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.

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Candidates are strongly encouraged to specifically address the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification in their covering letter.

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.

Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in the University. It consists of over 2000 staff and 5000 students within six Schools and two Schools of Education.

School of Life Course & Population Sciences

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps