Post-doctoral Research Assistant neuronal biologist: “Biomarkers of lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease”

We’re searching for to nominate a Senior Programme Supervisor and Scientific Coordinator to affix the devoted crew on the Centre for Medicines Discovery (CMD). The CMD was established in 2020 with the ambition to assist pioneer new remedies for illness. To understand this ambition, the CMD is forming in depth collaborations with lecturers throughout the College of Oxford and past to assist translate primary science into new drug discovery initiatives, in addition to partnerships with business to develop drug leads into new medicines.

This position presents an thrilling alternative to have interaction with a lot of world-leading lecturers and clinicians, in addition to funders and business representatives on a various portfolio of initiatives. You’ll assist to ascertain strategic alliances for the division, assist to write down funding functions for brand spanking new initiatives and contribute to their profitable mission administration. You may be anticipated to oversee an related mission supervisor and may have the help of different Senior Programme Managers and Principal Investigators within the division. Profitable initiatives may have a transparent analysis and monetary path to the clinic.

You may be chargeable for researching and initiating new translational proposals, working in collaboration with scientific colleagues. You’ll lead the conception and writing of proposals for the elevating of funds via the pitching of functions to business, enterprise capitalists, charities and grant awarding our bodies, and determine new funding alternatives and co-ordinate the writing and submission of proposals and talk alternatives to scientific colleagues. You’ll handle a portfolio of collaborative analysis initiatives as part of a small portfolio administration crew. These vary from small digital initiatives, managed by way of outsourcing, to giant multi-disciplinary, worldwide, £multi-million syndicates. You may be chargeable for main in presenting and elevating the CMD’s public {and professional} profile by offering a ‘front-of-house’ functionality, making tutorial and enterprise contacts and managing conferences and introductory conferences to showcase the CMD’s science and functionality.

It’s important that you just maintain a PhD in life-sciences, and have demonstrable expertise in grant writing and managing advanced profitable scientific initiatives. You’ll possess a information of biomedical discovery analysis that allows the formulation of collaborative work plans and critique of the scientific contributions made by collaborating companions. Important considering, robust scientific writing and problem-solving expertise are important. You may be organised and with capacity to prioritise and multitask a posh workload, and ship in a well timed method to deadlines. It is possible for you to to work each inside a multidisciplinary crew or independently, and to coordinate actions throughout groups. A robust curiosity in neuroscience and uncommon illnesses could be fascinating.

Purposes for this emptiness are to be made on-line and you can be required to add a supporting assertion and CV as a part of your on-line software. Your supporting assertion should clarify the way you meet every of the choice standards for the publish utilizing examples of your expertise and expertise.

This place is obtainable full time on a set time period contract till 31 March 2026 and is funded by NIHR BRC Oxford and Oxford Well being

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