Senior Research Technician

Location: St. Mary’s Campus

Job Summary

A Senior Research Technician position is available within the Group of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, which forms part of the Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College to work on research to develop new vaccines and to explore methodologies that aim to improve their immunogenicity. This post represents an exciting new opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team working on the projects headed by Professor Robin Shattock, within the Group of Mucosal Infection & Immunity.

Duties and responsibilities

The post holder will be involved in a 12 month project to investigate human immune responses to novel vaccines to infectious diseases such as SARS-CoV-2, Chlamydia, Marburg, Lassa, Ebola and HIV. In addition to processing clinical samples and determining the immune responses to the vaccines, the work will involve the development, optimisation and standardisation of new assays to analyse vaccine-elicited immune responses.

Essential requirements

You should hold at least a Bachelors or equivalent in immunology, virology or a related biological science discipline alongside significant immunological assay experience, including setting up and analysing complex panels for flow cytometric analysis. Specific experience with processing PBMC and clinical sample processing are essential. You should also have excellent laboratory skills, organisation and time management, as detailed in the accompanying job description. Knowledge of word processing, data analysis, and data presentation software are also required.

Further Information

The contract is Full Time and Fixed Term for 12 months based at the St. Mary’s Campus.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Dr Hannah Cheeseman Hannah.cheeseman@imperial.ac.uk

Closing date: 08/01/23

To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference MED03531

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