Research Fellow

About us

The mission of the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.

About the role

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a newly funded UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) project. The successful applicant will be working as part of a newly set up group led by Dr Naresh Hanchate, who is a UCL Excellence Fellow and the holder of the MRC Neuroscience and Mental Health New Investigator Award. The aim of the Hanchate group is to investigate the impact of early life adversities on the brain circuitry, in particular, those that control physiological stress responses. The group employs newly developed genomic technologies (Connect-seq, Nuc-connect-seq) to profile single-cell transcriptomes of individual neural circuit components to understand the impacts of early life adversities. The postholder will perform murine studies, including maintenance of transgenic lines, behavioral and physiological studies, surgical manipulations for stereotaxic delivery of viruses intracranially, preparation of single-cell cDNA libraries, sequencing, and analyses or arr ange work with UCL Genomics, supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The post is funded until 31 Jan 2026 in the first instance and the salary range for this post is £42,099 - £46,732 per annum.

About you

The postholder will have PhD in a relevant field, BSc in Biological sciences, Experience in molecular biology techniques (eg cloning, RNAseq, transfection, cellular work, RNASeq). Experience working with animal rodent models, including colony management, genotyping, tissue dissections, mouse neurobehavioral and neuroendocrine analyses, and stereotaxic injections for intracranial delivery of viruses, are strongly favoured.

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