Research Assistant in Perinatal Science

Job id: 086608. Wage: £37,332- £42,099 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 20 March 2024. Time limit: 10 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: School of Life Sciences & Drugs. Division: Division of Ladies & Youngsters’s Well being.

Contact particulars:Rachel Tribe. [email protected]

Location: St Thomas’ Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

We’re searching for an enthusiastic and proactive Analysis Assistant with a BSc in Biomedical Sciences or equal to hitch the INSIGHT-2/PISA research staff (funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Belief and Borne Charity), led by Professors Tribe and Gibbons at King’s School London.  INSIGHT-2 is a pregnancy-child cohort exploring the mechanisms of being pregnant problems and the influence being pregnant exposures have on future little one well being. The PISA research is embedded inside this cohort and seeks to grasp how fetal exposures in being pregnant improve the chance of childhood kind 1 diabetes. You’ll assist clinic, laboratory and administration actions associated to the research, together with recruitment (St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s School Hospital); governance; pattern assortment and pattern processing/storage/evaluation (immunology and molecular biology primarily based); and reporting progress at analysis conferences. You’ll be part of a longtime staff of devoted researchers all engaged on this challenge.

You’ll work throughout the wider Division of Ladies and Youngsters’s Well being within the College of Life Course and Inhabitants Well being Sciences primarily based at St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, offering an surroundings that’s extremely supportive of early profession researchers. 

This publish can be provided on an a fixed-term contract till thirtieth November 2025.

This can be a full-time publish.

Key duties

• Help recruitment and monitoring of members to the analysis research
• Undertake human pattern processing, PMBC isolation from blood and evaluation
• Order consumables required for analysis actions
• Preserve a clear laboratory and workplace surroundings; guarantee organised storage of samples and preserve correct freezer, fridge and laboratory storage data
• Talk frequently with the research PIs and staff (formal research and group analysis conferences, day by day interactions)
• Anticipate and handle issues which will have an effect on the achievement of analysis goals and deadlines
• Take part in common laboratory conferences, journal golf equipment, Departmental and College conferences and so forth
• Contribute to the educational lifetime of the Division and College as required e.g. instructing and different duties as required

The above listing of duties will not be exhaustive, and the publish holder can be required to undertake such duties and duties as could fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the publish.

Abilities, data, and expertise

Important standards

BSc in a related Biomedical Sciences topic (e.g. immunology, reproductive biology, cell biology)

Confirmed, related laboratory expertise (human pattern dealing with, serum/PMBC evaluation)

Good analytical expertise together with use of graphical packages

Skill to ship data successfully by means of shows and written studies

Wonderful organisational expertise (lab/evaluation/regulatory) to make sure a top quality of pattern/knowledge and experimental outputs

Skill to work successfully in a multidisciplinary staff

Proof of semi-independent working and initiative

Data of GCP, HTA and GDPR

Dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion, and to actively addressing areas of potential bias

Fascinating standards

Related MSc/curiosity in being pregnant or reproductive biology

Data of statistics and related statistical packages

We ask all candidates to submit a duplicate of their CV and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a powerful subject of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our closing shortlist, so please embody your proof towards these the place doable.

The College of Life Course & Inhabitants Sciences is one among six Colleges that make up the School of Life Sciences & Drugs at King’s School London. The College unites over 400 consultants in ladies and youngsters’s well being, dietary sciences, inhabitants well being and the molecular genetics of human illness. Our analysis hyperlinks the causes of widespread well being issues to life’s landmark phases, treating life, illness and healthcare as a continuum. We’re interdisciplinary by nature and this revolutionary method works: 91 per cent of our analysis submitted to the Topics Allied to Drugs (Pharmacy, Dietary Sciences and Ladies’s Well being cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally wonderful. We use this experience to show the subsequent technology of well being professionals and analysis scientists. Based mostly throughout King’s Denmark Hill, Man’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our tutorial programme of instructing, analysis and scientific apply is embedded throughout 5 Departments.

Extra data: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps

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