Postdoctoral Research Assistant

 Concerning the Position

Candidates are invited to hitch an thrilling transdisciplinary staff of bioengineers, local weather scientists, scientific trialists and epidemiologists working collectively at Queen Mary throughout the Faculty of Engineering and Supplies Science, Blizard Institute, Wolfson Institute for Inhabitants Well being, and in Zimbabwe on the Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Little one Well being Analysis.

This undertaking is funded by Wellcome and led by Prof Andrew Prendergast who’s the Director of the Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Little one Well being Analysis in Zimbabwe and has established scientific trials to enhance wholesome beginning and progress. You’ll work beneath the supervision of Dr Tina Chowdhury on the Centre for Bioengineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Supplies Science, who has developed 3D fashions to focus on inflammatory pathways which might be widespread in preterm beginning (https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/workers/t.t.chowdhury ).

Our purpose is to raised perceive the pathogenesis of preterm beginning which impacts 13.4 million infants every year, making it the main reason behind demise amongst kids beneath 5 years outdated. You’ll be part of a transdisciplinary staff of UK-Zimbabwe teachers working in direction of understanding the complicated interactions of how excessive warmth impacts being pregnant and preterm beginning. Zimbabwe has one of many highest international preterm beginning charges (32/1000 reside births). Presently, there’s a paucity of scientific interventions to forestall preterm beginning in rural Zimbabwe. 

This undertaking will make the most of a human in vitro mannequin representing the maternal-fetal interface to research the results of warmth stress on inflammatory mechanisms. You’ll consider the interactions utilizing scientific biomarkers recognized throughout being pregnant from ladies who reside in Zimbabwe to find whether or not warmth amplifies irritation resulting in rupture and preterm beginning.

About You

The candidate could have expertise in mechanobiology and bioengineering. Cell imaging methods embody multiphoton, SAXS, or cell/molecular approaches to research inflammatory mechanisms in human placenta.

Concerning the Faculty

The Centre for Bioengineering will give you enthusiastic help to develop your tutorial profession (https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/analysis/bioengineering/ ).

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary College of London, we consider {that a} variety of concepts helps us obtain the beforehand unthinkable.

All through our historical past, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives by means of tutorial excellence. And we proceed to reside and breathe this spirit right now, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the appropriate factor to do’ however for what it helps us obtain and the mental brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that nice concepts can and may come from anyplace. It’s an method that has introduced outcomes throughout the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We proceed to embrace variety of thought and opinion in the whole lot we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, really unique thought takes kind.

Advantages
In return, we provide 30 days’ depart every year, entry to a pension scheme, a season ticket mortgage scheme and aggressive salaries. We additionally supply enhanced household pleasant depart, and an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus. Additionally, you will work with a pleasant staff, with private growth alternatives.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our numerous and inclusive neighborhood is embedded in our appointments processes. Cheap changes will likely be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity.