Location: | London |
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Salary: | From £41,935 with benefits, subject to skills and experience |
Hours: | Full Time, Part Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 7th September 2023 |
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Closes: | 6th November 2023 |
Job Ref: | R1279 |
Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London
Contract: Permanent, Full time/Part time
Short summary
The Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist will carry out research on transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms underlying the initiation, progression and immune control of human cancer. Particular emphasis will be placed on endogenous retroviruses and other endogenous retroelements that current work in the lab has identified as cancer-specific. The focus is the creation of novel or alteration of existing gene function, through co-option of endogenous retroelements in cancer, and the creation of cancer-specific antigens through transcriptional activation of typically repressed endogenous retroviruses.
The Research Group
This role will be pivotal in ensuring continuation of research on endogenous retroviruses in human cancer in the Kassiotis lab at the Francis Crick Institute:
Lab web page: https://www.crick.ac.uk/george-kassiotis
The Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist will lead their own projects, contribute to other projects on a collaborative basis (both in the lab and with external collaborators) and may guide PhD students in their research. The ability to work in a team is essential.
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About us
The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.
The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.
The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.
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