Programme Leader Track - LMS 2800

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Full-time (36 hours) (Part-time applications welcome)

The LMS is a vibrant biomedical research institute with a focus on mechanistic biomedical discovery science. We value transdisciplinary team science as a transformative approach to address major questions of relevance to human health and disease. Our state-of-the-art building, our innovative and highly collaborative researcher community and our scientific core facilities collectively build the backbone of our research. Our cutting-edge facilities provide our researchers with expert guidance, as well as driving innovation through the development of new methodologies.

In the current recruitment drive, we would like to make a new programme leader track appointment and are looking for scientists who are highly interactive and collaborative, also across disciplines, and who are open and interested in team science approaches beyond their own individual research programme.

The LMS has defined three priority areas for our research:

1. Cell identity across the life course (including early development and ageing)
2. Sex differences in biology and disease
3. Gene-environment interactions (pertaining to the impact of endogenous and exogenous environmental determinants, including over-nutrition)

We are open to how your research aligns with the priority areas. We are looking for scientists who are employing human in vivo physiology approaches to understand the mechanisms underlying the development and progression of human metabolic disease and who are also interested in exploring how these adversely affects healthy aging and exerts sex-divergent effects.

We have a newly established Human in vivo Physiology core facility at LMS, which is led by a Lead Research Nurse and seeks to build a national network of human in vivo physiology expertise to maintain this expertise for the nation and help UK researchers to access to it. We are looking for someone who can encourage other LMS researchers to explore how their projects could benefit from interaction with this core facility to maximise translational opportunities and who can provide strategic and academic advice for the further development of the Human in vivo Physiology Core.

As a Programme Leader Track, you will receive, in addition to your own salary, two core funded posts and research consumables. Once every 2 to 3 years, you will be able to recruit a PhD student from the MRC core funding, and you will be able to apply to our transdisciplinary PhD programme, which promotes collaboration with disciplines outside your own expertise, including industry partners. Part of our mission is the integrated training of both basic and clinician scientists, and you will have the opportunity to supervise and mentor early-career clinician scientists undertaking a PhD or postdoctoral training through our Chain Florey programme.

On top of this, you will have access to the entire range of our scientific core facilities to drive your research forward, including a state-of-the-art animal house for detailed functional studies. We are also establishing a networked human in vivo physiology core facility providing support for studies with human tissues as well as for human in vivo physiology and experimental medicine approaches, irrespective of whether or not you are clinically qualified.

You can also participate in our Team Science projects that take a transdisciplinary approach and aim to bring groups of researchers together to enable them to address major questions in our priority areas. These are great opportunities to build your collaborative network and further your research. Funds for team science will be in addition to the core funding for your research group.

Diversity is essential to excellence in scientific endeavour. Everyone at our institute shares in the responsibility to actively promote dignity, respect, inclusivity and equal treatment.

We are committed to creating equality of opportunity to all members of the organisation, regardless of their background, and promoting diversity and inclusivity. We warmly welcome applications from all backgrounds and from anywhere in the world.

For full details of this post and to complete an online application, please click on the 'Apply' button above and upload your up-to-date CV, including past scientific accomplishments and esteem factors, along with a covering letter stating why you want to come to the LMS and why your science is a good fit.  Please quote reference number LMS 2800.

Applications without a supporting covering letter will not be considered.

Please note that applications may be reviewed by both LMS and Imperial staff