Postdoctoral Research Associate in Multimodal Nanotheranostics for Image Guided Surgery

About Us

The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences has attracted multi-million pound research funding and collaborates with other universities and Faculties within KCL, the NHS, charitable trusts and foundations, international Universities and industry.  

The post holder will work as part of a recently-funded EPSRC Programme grant, undertaking research into nanotheranostics, support academic and research staff and their academic collaborators in other institutions, hospitals and industry conducting this funded research and delivering outcomes that have real-world, life-improving impacts. 

About The Role

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate as part of the EPSRC programme grant “Total Body Nuclear Imaging for the Development of Nanotheranostics”, This Programme involves 15 co-investigators in a range of disciplines related to PET imaging strategies for the development of healthcare nanomaterials for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, including clinical translation to benefit patients. The Programme is mainly hosted by the Research Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London (KCL), with major additional contributions from colleagues at Queen Mary University of London and University of Leeds, as well as other Departments within KCL.

This role will be working within Theme 3 of the Programme: ‘Image-guided Surgery’ and will involve the synthesis and assessment of novel multimodal nanomaterials for healthcare applications and radiolabel for PET imaging.

Key responsabilities will include the synthesis and validation of dual modal nanomaterial for Image guided surgery applications. PET will be used for locating and staging tumours, fluorescence for resection.

The post holder will also be expected to work collaboratively within the Programme and provide their expertise and support to a large multidisciplinary team of chemists, radiochemists, (radio)biologists, pharmacists, and clinicians.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in the design and synthesis of multimodal nanoparticles for PET imaging, synthetic chemistry, nanomaterial synthesis, and radiochemistry; be self-motivated; able to work independently, and will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.. They should be able to demonstrate a proven track record of scientific publications and presentation at international research meetings.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 3 years.

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

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