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Research Assistant

Imperial College London - Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences

Location: London
Salary: £40,694 to £43,888 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 19th September 2023
Closes: 16th October 2023
Job Ref: NAT01534
 

Location: South Kensington Campus

Job Summary

The vision of the Osier laboratory is to “Make Malaria History” through highly effective vaccination. We focus on vaccine candidate discovery, the identification of correlates of protection and the mechanisms that underpin protective immunity. This project will investigate and prioritize merozoite stage antigens that induce antibody-dependent Fc-mediated mechanisms of immunity (Musasia et al., Nature Comm 2022, Odera et al, Science Transl. Med. 2023, Niare et al., Front. Immunol. 2023).

We are looking for a researcher with experience in immunology, molecular biology and bioinformatics. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to develop a PhD project by the end of the first year, as part of a 4-year post.

Duties and responsibilities

You will contribute to an exciting project funded by the Wellcome Trust that brings together a diverse and international multidisciplinary team that will dissect the precise structural and fine molecular characteristics that lead to the successful control of malaria. We aim to use this knowledge to design and test new vaccine constructs and monoclonal antibody therapies.

Essential requirements

You should hold a Masters’ Degree (or equivalent) in Biology or Biotechnology or a related field. You must have excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills, excellent laboratory and organisational skills, and the ability to prioritise your work in response to deadlines, use your initiative and be able to work independently as well as part of the team are all essential.

You must also have excellent attention to details, good record keeping skills, the ability to learn and apply new techniques and concepts and the commitment to meeting deadlines. You will be expected to provide training and assistance to others. 

Further Information

This is a full time, fixed term position for 48 months. You will be based at South Kensington Campus.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Professor Faith Osier – f.osier@imperial.ac.uk

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research

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