Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Division: Blizard Institute
Wage: £40,223-£42,405 (Grade 4)
Reference: 1407
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 12 March 2024
Cut-off date: 9 April 2024

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Overview

Concerning the Position

Functions are invited for a 12 month post-doctoral place to check the affiliation between platelet age and platelet operate related to thrombotic danger and illness development. The profitable applicant will make use of a spread of experimental approaches to check the roles of platelets of various ages in experimental animals, wholesome human volunteers and sufferers with cardiovascular and associated ailments. They’ll plan and perform experimental work, devise methods for additional growth and development of the undertaking, in addition to being concerned in compiling the information, and helping within the writing of abstracts, manuscripts and grant purposes.

About You

You can be hard-working, extremely motivated, and in a position to work independently and collaboratively inside a staff, and throughout each the College and Belief. You’ll have expertise of working with remoted platelets in customary assays coupled with data and understanding of the cardiovascular system and cardiovascular ailments. Expertise with circulate cytometry and cell imaging would even be helpful as these might be central facets of the experimental work you’ll conduct. Additionally, you will have good analytical and displays expertise.  

Concerning the Institute

The Blizard Institute was established in 2003 and is one in every of six Institutes throughout the College of Drugs and Dentistry, QMUL. The Institute contains roughly 350 employees based mostly in 4 tutorial Centres and one Public Engagement Centre and helps a mixed whole of c750 postgraduate analysis and taught college students. The Institute goals to ship excellence in all facets of analysis, instructing and scientific service.

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 way of tutorial excellence. And we proceed to stay and breathe this spirit right this moment, 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.

We proceed to embrace variety of thought and opinion in every thing we do, within the perception that when views collide, disciplines work together, and views intersect, actually authentic thought takes type.

Advantages

We provide aggressive salaries, entry to a beneficiant pension scheme, 30 days’ depart each year (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket mortgage scheme and entry to a complete vary of non-public {and professional} growth alternatives. As well as, we provide a spread of labor life steadiness and household pleasant, inclusive employment insurance policies, versatile working preparations, and campus services together with an on-site nursery on the Mile Finish campus.

The put up relies on the Whitechapel campus in London. It’s full-time and on a hard and fast time period 12-month contract. A begin date as quickly as doable however is negotiable relying on the candidate’s present employment standing. Wage might be at Grade 4 (between £40,223-£42,405), inclusive of London Allowance (relying on expertise). 

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. We’re open to contemplating purposes from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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