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. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. Th e 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

The appointee will participate in a large, multi-institutional and multidisciplinary project part of the The Severe Presentation of Infectious Disease (SPID) Genomic Network of Excellence (GNoE) funded by NHS England. This project is designed to transform the understanding and management of patients with life threatening infectious disease, through the application of novel genomic technologies in pathogen detection and host immunity profiling. In particular, we are leading the roll out of metagenomic methods within NHS diagnostic labs. The post will be for 16 months in the first instance, but additional funding is currently being applied to extend the post for ext ra 2 years.

About you

The postholder will have a PhD/DPhil in life sciences (molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, virology or any related area), experience in NGS wet lab workflows (particularly Nanopore and/or Illumina), experience in molecular biology methods (PCR, qPCR/dPCR, Nucleic acid extraction, cloning). Experience in hybridization-capture NGS workflows, experience in development and optimisation of NGS wet lab protocols and experience in pathogen (Viral/bacterial) nucleic acids extraction are desirable. Please check JD for detailed information.

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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 fai r 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. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/ If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Madhur Sharma

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