Research Associate iMPROVE Project

Job Title: Research Associate iMPROVE Project
School: School of Medicine
Campus: Derry~Londonderry
Salary: £32,564 - £36,148 per annum
Duration: Fixed term until 31st December 2028 / Full-time
Closing Date: 20th August 2025
Reference Number: 036746

- ABOUT US -

We are a university with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland.

Our core business activities are teaching and learning, widening access to education, research and innovation and technology and knowledge transfer.

- THE ROLE -

The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on pharmacogenomics within the EU iMPROVE Project based at the Personalised Medicine Centre, School of Medicine. They will be responsible for co-development and operation of a project participant database, a pharmacogenomic evidence database and performing data analysis on clinical outcome measures from participants recruited within the Project.

iMPROVE is a €10.1M EU PEACEPLUS funded cross-border project, led by Ulster University, which seeks to implement and deliver specialist personalised medicine and person-centric care to improve prescribing safety for 10,000 people living with health conditions in the rural and urban communities of Northwest Ireland and Tayside in Scotland.

- ABOUT YOU -

- A Degree.
- PhD (or near completion, i.e. thesis submitted) in data analysis and database design or similar area.
- Experience in a research role to include planning, design and managing key operational functions of data collection systems and software for clinical consented data collection and operation procedures including access control.

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