Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Division: College 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

 Concerning the Position

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

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

Our purpose is to higher perceive the pathogenesis of preterm beginning which impacts 13.4 million infants annually, making it the main reason behind demise amongst kids beneath 5 years previous. You’ll be a part of a transdisciplinary group of UK-Zimbabwe lecturers working in the direction of understanding the advanced interactions of how excessive warmth impacts being pregnant and preterm beginning. Zimbabwe has one of many highest world preterm beginning charges (32/1000 stay births). Presently, there’s a paucity of medical interventions to stop preterm beginning in rural Zimbabwe. 

This venture 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 beginning.

About You

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

Concerning the College

The Centre for Bioengineering will offer 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 imagine {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 tutorial excellence. And we proceed to stay and breathe this spirit right this moment, not as a result of it’s merely ‘the precise 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 variety of thought and opinion in the whole lot 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 provide enhanced household pleasant go away, and an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus. Additionally, you will work with a pleasant group, with private improvement alternatives.

Queen Mary’s dedication to our various 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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