Senior Research and Development Scientist

Job title:

Senior Analysis and Growth Scientist

Firm

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Job description

Do you need to assist us enhance human well being and perceive life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the long run to allow or ship life-changing science to resolve a few of humanity’s best challenges.

Now we have an thrilling alternative for a Senior Analysis and Growth Scientist to affix the Genomic Surveillance Unit right here on the Wellcome Sanger Institute. This can be a key position, main multidisciplinary analysis and improvement tasks, together with mammalian cell tradition, an infection fashions, and cell screening.

If you happen to’re captivated with utilizing genomics to make an actual distinction to public well being on a nationwide and international stage, then maintain studying!

Concerning the position
As Senior Analysis and Growth Scientist you may be accountable for:

Establishing, performing and validating molecular and sequencing methods together with extraction and PCR for detection and profiling of pathogens from human and environmental samples

Growing quantitative and high quality evaluation assays to generate nucleic acid materials appropriate with sequencing applied sciences and strategies

Growing and testing, documenting, and selling new strategies and commonplace working procedures for factors 1 + 2 above

Conducting laboratory and assay high quality management and assurance.

Main the writing and publication of manuscripts and stories describing analysis outcomes, in collaboration with the broader mission staff

Analysing pathogen genomes to determine conserved targets for amplification assays

Making use of information and abilities to help the modification and refinement of SOPs, with specific emphasis on scalability and cost-effectiveness.

Making certain that every one work carried out is in accordance with the institute’s analysis insurance policies to ensure it’s moral and authorized

Commonly interacting with scientific employees to evaluate outcomes and troubleshoot advanced issues

Protecting updated with the most recent developments and R&D alternatives via literature overview, website visits, attendance at science and know-how conferences, and dialogue with exterior firms

Initiating, growing and managing collaborations, networks or partnerships, with firms and scientists (each inner and exterior)

Supporting, coaching, advising, mentoring and training different staff members

Encouraging a tradition of honesty and openness throughout the group that allows all R&D friends to boost requirements of labor and behavior

Contributing to wider laboratory science as a part of the Respiratory Virus and Microbiome Initiative (RVI) programme

About you
We’re on the lookout for devoted and pleasant individuals with nice communication abilities to affix our staff.

To excel on this position you have to the next abilities and expertise:

Technical Expertise

PhD in organic sciences or equal related laboratory/analysis expertise

Postdoctoral or related expertise with a publication document in a related topic

Expertise within the improvement of molecular diagnostics and genome sequencing of pathogens

Excessive proficiency with molecular biology methods together with RNA/DNA extraction, RT-PCR, qPCR, sequencing

Expertise working at Containment Degree 2 (important) and Containment Degree 3 (fascinating)

Competencies and Behaviours

Potential to work successfully, each independently and inside a staff, contributing to discussions and disseminating information and data

Resilient and self-motivated to take learnings from unsuccessful experiments

Meticulous consideration to element

Glorious organisational and communication abilities

Extremely developed problem-solving abilities

Skilled in planning experiments and analysis, and in setting strategic objectives

Demonstrates inclusivity and respect for all

Robust Influencing abilities

Potential to construct relationships with inner and exterior stakeholders

About us

The Genomic Surveillance Unit is devoted to international public well being, bringing experience in genomics, information science, product improvement, and sequencing operations to bear on surveillance options for vital human illnesses. We presently give attention to malaria, COVID-19, and a variety of different respiratory viruses.

The tradition within the GSU is modern, fast-paced, worldwide, and multidisciplinary. With backgrounds in enterprise, know-how, academia, and international well being, our staff solves issues with views from a number of angles.

Examples of our work embody:

Intensive involvement in COVID-19 and respiratory virus surveillance actions within the UK, offering the UK Well being Safety Company with perception to detect and handle outbreaks;

Combating malaria — a illness which kills lots of of 1000’s of kids yearly — by monitoring drug and insecticide resistance;

Working with analysis companions all over the world to translate scientific discoveries into operational surveillance merchandise;

Our world-leading COVID-19 and malaria genomic surveillance streams have a confirmed observe document of profitable implementation. We help companions all over the world at each stage of the method, from pattern assortment and lab set-up to coaching, information era, and evaluation.

Our priorities are to repeatedly improve advantages to public well being, whereas enhancing the accessibility and high quality of genomic surveillance information. Pushed by the wants of our companions, we create analytical instruments, lab strategies, and information pipelines that push the boundaries of what’s doable.

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Extra info
Inside workers focused on making use of for this position ought to apply via the interior Jobs Hub.

Please embody a canopy letter alongside together with your CV. In your cowl letter embody element on how your information, abilities and expertise match the necessities of the position described.

Wage: £53,700 – £64,500
Closing Date: Sunday 07-APR

View the Sanger Institute’s 2022-2023 Highlights right here:

Purposes shall be reviewed on an ongoing foundation and the position might shut when a profitable appointment has been made.

Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger:

We recognise that there are various advantages to Hybrid Working; together with an improved work-life steadiness, with extra targeted time, in addition to the flexibility to organise working time in order that collaborative alternatives and staff discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working association will fluctuate for various roles and groups. The character of your position and the kind of work you do will decide if a hybrid working association is feasible.

Equality, Range and Inclusion:

We goal to draw, recruit, retain and develop expertise from the widest doable expertise pool, thereby gaining perception and entry to totally different markets to generate a better impression on the world. Now we have a with the next employees networks, LGBTQ+, Mother and father and Carers, Incapacity and Race Fairness to carry individuals collectively to share experiences, supply particular help and improvement alternatives and lift consciousness. The networks are additionally a spot for allies to supply help to others.

We would like our individuals to be whoever they need to be as a result of we consider individuals who carry their greatest selves to work, do their greatest work. That’s why we’re dedicated to creating a very inclusive tradition at Sanger Institute. We’ll contemplate all people with out discrimination and are dedicated to creating an inclusive atmosphere for all workers, the place everybody can thrive.

Our Advantages:

We’re proud to ship an awarding campus-wide worker wellbeing technique and programme. The significance of excellent well being and adopting a more healthy way of life and the dedication to cut back work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.

Sanger Institute grew to become a signatory of the Worldwide Technician Dedication initiative In March 2018. The goals to empower and guarantee visibility, recognition, profession improvement and sustainability for technicians working in larger training and analysis, throughout all disciplines.

Anticipated wage

£53700 – 64500 per yr

Location

Hinxton, Cambridgeshire

Job date

Solar, 17 Mar 2024 06:18:04 GMT

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