"Research Fellow in Biochemistry & Biomedicine"

University of Sussex - Life Sciences

About the role

Dr Rhys Morgan’s research group is seeking to appoint a highly talented and motivated Research Fellow to lead a 3-year Cancer Research UK funded project titled ‘Detecting and targeting translation inhibitor sensitive RUNX1 mutations in chronic myeloid leukaemia’. You will work independently to produce high quality experimental data in the laboratories of the Biochemistry & Biomedicine department, which will be used to write scientific publications, obtain further research funding, be presented at internal seminars, and submitted to national/international conferences.
You will be required to supervise project students and contribute to wider school missions around teaching, public engagement and research culture.
You will benefit from the supervision and mentorship of a new scientific/clinical partnership between Dr Morgan (School of Life Sciences) and Dr David Palmer (University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust) and be part of the wider Sussex Blood Cancer Research network with colleagues in Brighton & Sussex Medical School.
You will benefit from interactions with the Sussex RNA Biology Centre and be embedded within the Sussex Cancer Research Centre, which unites all cancer researchers across Sussex.

About you

This will be a laboratory-based project favouring those with practical experience in a variety of cellular (myeloid cell line, patient sample and stem cell culture), genetic (RNAi, CRISPR/Cas9 and transfection/transduction) and molecular (flow cytometry, immunoblotting, RT-qPCR, RNA immunoprecipitation) techniques across in vitro and in vivo models. You should be computationally literate and competent with basic bioinformatic analyses. You will be flexible to attend extended visits to collaborators at the Universities of Glasgow and Nottingham to complete experimental work during the study.
You should be highly motivated, and ambitious, looking to pioneer new approaches where required and demonstrate resilience to overcome experimental challenges. You will have the ability to multi-task and run multiple experiments in parallel. You will be well organised and able to work effectively as part of a collegiate team to manage the laboratory and assist other researchers in working on related projects. You’ll report punctually and reliably at regular progress meetings and be to communicate effectively with laboratory scientists, clinicians, and non-expert audiences.

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Further Key Information

Please contact Rhys Morgan (rhys.morgan@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

Eligibility

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