Senior Research Fellow

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Our mission 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. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teachin g 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. Please only attach relevant documents to your application (qualifications, cover letters, supporting statements) and avoid attaching large files e.g. research papers, thesis, publications etc.

About the role

The post-holder will work with Dr Sara Ghorashian in characterising CAR T cells and their environmental influences from a range of translational contexts including interrogation of samples from early phase clinical studies. The salary offered in this post is £54,931 - £59,571 per annum and is funded until 31/03/2029 in the first instance.

About you

We seek to recruit a researcher at a senior post-doctoral level with expertise in computational biology including multi-omic analyses on a single cell and spatially resolved basis who is interested to apply this to the immune microenvironment in leukaemia. The post-holder should also have an interest in data science, machine learning tools or artificial intelligence as applied to biological systems related to immune therapy of cancer. The postholder should be committed to working towards research independence, aiming to explore independent research lines and develop new methodologies / resources.

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