Research Fellow

About us

The molecular nociception group is a world leading research team focussing on peripheral pain mechanisms and the development of new analgesic strategies. We have recently been fortunate to obtain funding from CRUK to try to understand more about bone cancer pain and its treatment.

About the role

The post involves mouse behavioural studies and the application of genetic strategies to define new targets, as well as the testing of known analgesic strategies to attenuate bone cancer pain. The researcher will work collaboratively, exploiting transgenic mouse lines and a variety of experimental interventions to define the best way to block bone cancer pain.

About you

The successful applicant should have a PhD in neuroscience, ideally with some background in the pain field. This project combines molecular genetics, a lot of mouse behavioural studies and the application of a number of new approaches to treating pain that we hope to translate rapidly into human proof of concept studies. The applicant should have expertise in mouse genetics and mouse behaviour studies. Ideally, some knowledge of GCaMP imaging and recombinant DNA work would be valuable.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan• Relocation scheme for certain posts

• On-Site nursery • On-site gym

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.

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