Location: | Birmingham |
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Salary: | £36,130 to £45,413 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 9th June 2025 |
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Closes: | 30th June 2025 |
Job Ref: | 105886 |
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149. As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £41,671
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to July 2027
Background
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.
Role Summary
This is a two-year postdoctoral position funded by The Humane Research Trust (THRT) to undertake research into the synthesis and biological studies including targeting, penetration and toxicity of novel metallodrug-coated gold nanoparticles in a 3D-cell culture model of head and neck cancer. This is a highly inter-disciplinary project involving collaboration between Dr Nik Hodges (School of Biosciences) and Professors Zoe Pikramenou and Mike Hannon (School of Chemistry). The successful candidate will have had previous experience at working at the interface between chemistry and biology research. A chemistry background is required with synthetic expertise and experience in the following techniques is highly desirable:
In addition to project specific requirements described above, the successful candidate is expected to be able to:
Main Duties
The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
Person Specification
Informal enquiries to Dr Nikolas Hodges: email: n.hodges@bham.ac.uk
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