Postdoctoral Research Associate (fixed-term)

Functions are invited for a Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate within the Division of Life Sciences on the College of Bathtub, one of many UK’s main universities. 

This place is fixed-term for 9 months.

In regards to the position:

As part of an interdisciplinary group you’ll develop a novel strategy to detecting viral particle stability. 

The challenge builds on know-how developed within the lab of Prof. Chris Pudney at Bathtub, for the prediction of biopharmaceutical stability (DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20200580). 

The know-how is predicated on an optical phenomenon, the fluorescence pink edge excitation shift. 

The group at Bathtub have commercialised their advances as a part of a software program product for supporting determination making throughout biopharmaceutical improvement. 

The challenge, at the side of Agilent Applied sciences seeks to broaden the prediction know-how for use as a part of a high-throughput platform and for commercially related viral preparations together with vaccines and AAV therapeutics.

The challenge will contain the biophysical characterisation of viral particles and creating new methodologies to entry their stability. 

The profitable candidate could have expertise in protein biochemistry/biophysics and an curiosity in creating new applied sciences.

You can be a member of the Division of Life Sciences at Bathtub with entry to glorious analytical amenities to assist the challenge. The Division contains a depth and breadth of researchers with a vibrant analysis tradition and a famous energy in utilized bioscience analysis.

What we are able to give you:

We goal to be an inclusive college, the place distinction is widely known, revered and inspired. We now have a superb worldwide popularity with employees from over 60 completely different nations and have made a constructive dedication in the direction of gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award . We really imagine that variety of expertise, views, and backgrounds will result in a greater atmosphere for our staff and college students, so we encourage purposes from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, significantly from under-represented teams, and worth the constructive influence that may have on our groups. 

We’re very proud to be an autism pleasant college and are an accredited Incapacity Assured Chief; dedicated to constructing incapacity confidence and supporting disabled employees .

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