Research Fellow

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

Fixed Term Contract to September 2026

Background

The Children’s Brain Tumour Research Team (CBTRT) (www.cbtrt.bham.ac.uk) at the University of Birmingham, set up by Professor Andrew Peet and now led by Dr John Apps brings together a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and researchers to improve the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and lives of children with brain tumours.

Role Summary

• Deliver the research aims outlined within the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust grant entitled, “Advancing Non-Invasive Brain Tumour Diagnosis through AI driven Clinical Decision Support”.
• Contribute to generating funding through contribution to writing further grant/funding bids to support ongoing research in the field
• Operate within area of specialism, analyse and interpret and present research findings and results 

Main Duties

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Deliver the research aims outlined within the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust grant entitled, “Advancing Non-Invasive Brain Tumour Diagnosis through AI driven Clinical Decision Support”, through analysis of MR Diffusion Weighted Imaging and MR Spectroscopy and leading other members of the wider team
• Specific aims of the project
• To prospectively evaluate non-invasive pre-surgical radiomic diagnostic classifiers on brain tumours registered to the Imaging of Tumours Study
• Improve classifiers through addition of additional cases to the repository and further optimisation of classification algorithms
• Correlate/Integrate In Vivo and Ex Vivo metabolite analysis to understand the key metabolic pathways in different tumour types and subtypes
• Identify and harmonise MRI and MRS acquisition protocols for detection and quantification of specific metabolites relevant for specific tumour types/subtypes (led by Medical Physics team)
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to MSc and PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods 
• Undertake management/administration arising from research

Person Specification

• First degree in area of specialism and a higher degree (or will have submitted pending examination at the time of starting the post), relevant to research area or equivalent qualifications
• Experience in quantitative analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy 
• Ideally, experience and knowledge of paediatric brain tumour diagnosis and tumour biology
• Experience of using and developing Machine learning/AI based classifiers
• Proficiency in coding using R and Python and other similar languages
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly

Informal enquiries can be made to John Apps (j.r.apps@bham.ac.uk)

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