Clinical Research Fellow

About us

The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences (SCMMS) provides an outstanding multi-disciplinary environment for the pursuit of cutting-edge cardiovascular and metabolic research. We study the fundamental molecular, cellular, and physiological processes that underly normal and abnormal cardiovascular and metabolic function and drive the translation of this strong basic science into advances in clinical practice. Our research focuses on four main Themes (Cardiac, Vascular, Cardiometabolic, Diabetes & Obesity), with two cross-cutting Themes (Basic and Clinical). The School is led by Professor Mauro Giacca and comprises over 65 clinical and non-clinical academic groups, hosting 400 personnel and 110 PhD students.

Our community of world-renowned researchers and educators have access to state-of-the art core facilities and expertise, including facilities for high-throughput screening and high content imaging, multimodality in vivo imaging, proteomics, integrative physiology and viral & non-viral vector production. The School activities are carried out at three main locations: James Black Centre in Denmark Hill, St Thomas’s Hospital and Franklin-Wilkins Building in South Bank and the Hodgkin Building and New Hunt House/Randal Centre in Guy’s Campus. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for basic-clinical interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development. The School hosts the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at King's, which brings together a unique range of internationally recognised scientists and clinicians from across the School and King’s College London.

More information:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/scmms

About the role

12-month clinical research fellow post in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine and Sciences (SCMMS) at King’s College London.  This post is for a motivated clinician to undertake original clinical research within the field of type 1 diabetes and renal/vascular complications.

The SCCMS has an international reputation for cardiovascular and renal research in diabetes with an active clinical research programme focusing on new interventions to treat diabetic kidney disease.

The post holder will work closely under the supervision of Dr Janaka Karalliedde (Principal Investigator), Clinical Reader in Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease and Consultant Diabetes Physician and other members of the research team.

The post holder will primarily be responsible for the implementation and execution of a 24-month Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) international grant focussed on clinical trial assessing the impact of SGLT-2 inhibitor treatment for people with type 1 diabetes and kidney disease on renal and cardiac MRI endpoints.

The trial will also aim to develop better understanding of the impact of ethnicity on type 1 diabetes related cardio-renal disease markers and their response to SGLT-2 in treatment.

This is a full time post (40 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st December 2025.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria 

• Registered with GMC
• Medical degree
• Knowledge and experience of diabetes medicine
• Previous experience of clinical and/or basic research
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to work co-operatively within a multidisciplinary team.   
• Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision. 
• Ability to plan and prioritise workload

Desirable criteria

• Experience of supervision of students
• Experience of writing for publication

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