Research Assistant

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. The 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

This exciting opportunity working with Professor Wedderburn and Dr Wilkinson is a laboratory role with focus on sample handling and processing, tissue culture of patient biopsy material, linked to data curation and biobank management. The post will provide excellent training and opportunities to contribute to immunological and tissue studies in childhood onset arthritis and myositis. The post holder will receive training in sample processing, cell culture, biobank management. They will learn about handling clinical and biological data and big data analysis. The salary range for this post is £39,148 per year (including London Allowance) and the post is funded for 18 months in the first instance.

About you

The post holder should hold an honours degree in a biomedical or related subject. Ideally they should have experience in laboratory methods, such as processing and storage of human samples, and/or cell culture or immunological functional assays. Exper ience or knowledge of patient sample management and recording of clinical data and metadata for example in the RedCAP platform would be an advantage. The individual will be highly motivated to succeed in research, have excellent organizational, time management and communication skills, be prepared to work to deadlines and in an independent manner, and have the ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team both at UCL and with diverse collaborators

What we offer

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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 fair 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. 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 on quoting job reference

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