Location: | Sheffield |
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Salary: | £37,099 Grade 7.3, per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 21st March 2024 |
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Closes: | 4th April 2024 |
Job Ref: | UOS040471 |
Contract Type: Fixed-term for 19 months
The Department of Psychology is looking for an experienced Research Associate. You will work with Dr Jason Berwick and Dr Clare Howarth on a project funded by the Medical Research Council to develop novel pre-clinical vascular based treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease. An emerging theory of Alzheimer’s Disease is that there is a problem with brain blood supply, this research project is aimed at developing methods to enhance brain blood flow to slow down or stop the progression of the disease.
You will have a PhD (completed or close to completion) in Neuroscience or related discipline, prior experience with in vivo optical imaging, electrophysiology, including surgery, recording, data post-processing, histology. Previous experience with the development of high quality and ethical quantitative analysis. You will also have excellent communication and organisation skills, with the ability to work independently.
The Psychology Department at the University of Sheffield is among the largest in the UK and has been consistently ranked as one of the outstanding research departments in all seven UK Research Assessment Exercises to date. Over 90% of our department’s research was classed as internationally excellent or world leading in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
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