Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Division: Faculty of Engineering & Supplies Science
Wage: £40,223 – £44,722 every year (Grade 4)
Reference: 1642
Location: Mile Finish
Date posted: 19 March 2024
Time limit: 1 April 2024

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Overview

 In regards to the Position

Candidates are invited to hitch an thrilling transdisciplinary staff of bioengineers, local weather scientists, medical 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 mission 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 medical trials to enhance wholesome start and development. You’ll work below 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 start (https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/employees/t.t.chowdhury ).

Our objective is to raised perceive the pathogenesis of preterm start which impacts 13.4 million infants every year, making it the main reason behind dying amongst youngsters below 5 years outdated. You’ll be part of a transdisciplinary staff of UK-Zimbabwe lecturers working in the direction of understanding the advanced interactions of how excessive warmth impacts being pregnant and preterm start. Zimbabwe has one of many highest world preterm start charges (32/1000 stay births). Presently, there’s a paucity of medical interventions to forestall preterm start in rural Zimbabwe. 

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

About You

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

In regards to the Faculty

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

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

All through our historical past, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives by means of educational excellence. And we proceed to stay and breathe this spirit at this time, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the correct 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 will come from wherever. 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 range of thought and opinion in every little thing we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, actually unique thought takes type.

Advantages
In return, we provide 30 days’ go away every year, entry to a pension scheme, a season ticket mortgage scheme and aggressive salaries. We additionally supply enhanced household pleasant go away, 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 group is embedded in our appointments processes. Affordable changes might be made at every stage of the recruitment course of for any candidate with a incapacity.

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