"Research Assistant/Associate"

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Salary

Research Assistant: £33,002 to £34,610 per annum.

Research Associate: £35,608 to £46,049 per annum.

The Role

Based in the Wolfson Childhood Cancer Research Centre, a Research Associate position is available to support the research activities of the INSTINCT-MB.

Medulloblastoma is one of the leading causes of childhood cancer death. You will work on the INSTINCT-MB programme, which brings together teams based at Newcastle University, The Institute of Cancer Research and University College London. The programme will generate a wide range of contemporary high-resolution next-generation sequencing and array-based genomic and epigenomic datasets across large cohorts of human tumours and experimental models, alongside complex drug screening, efficacy and clinical phenotype information. Using these datasets, you will undertake comprehensive strategies aimed at the characterisation and therapeutic targeting of medulloblastoma biology, focussing specifically on tumour metabolic targets.

You will develop and support the INSTINCT-MB programme through the provision of experimental, analytical and bioinformatic expertise. This will include the development of experimental models of critical medulloblastoma targets, their use in experimental drug screening and efficacy studies of metabolic targets, and the generation and integration of genomics, proteomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics from these models alongside extensive human tumour collections.

You will be PhD-qualified, or have submitted your PhD thesis for examination at the point of commencing this post, with experience in contemporary molecular cell biology, tumour metabolism, experimental modelling and bioinformatics as applied to translational cancer genomics, ideally within the context of childhood medulloblastoma, and a keen interest to develop your research skills and career in these areas.

This post is fixed-term for a period of 17 months.

For informal enquiries contact: Professor Steve Clifford (steve.clifford@ncl.ac.uk) or Dr Rebecca Hill (rebecca.hill@ncl.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Newcastle University Centre for Cancer here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cancer.

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