Academic Clinical Fellowship - Rheumatology

About the Role
The Rheumatology Clinical Research Fellow provides essential medical support for our extensive portfolio of commercial and academic research studies, including regulated clinical trials (CTIMPs), based at Mile End Hospital. This is a fixed-term appointment for 12 months, designed to offer a unique sub-specialty experience with no formal on-call commitments.

While the primary focus is trial protocols—including patient identification, recruitment, and performing trial visits—the role is structured to provide an unparalleled training environment. You will join one of the world’s leading centres for biopsy-driven clinical trials in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).

About You
This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated individual considering a career in Rheumatology or a current trainee wishing to obtain in-depth exposure to the specialty in a stimulating academic environment.

We will offer a framework to help you build a competitive portfolio:

• Specialised Clinical Skills: Receive comprehensive training in musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound and highly specialised ultrasound-guided synovial biopsies.
• Academic Output: For candidates who demonstrate commitment beyond core delivery, there is potential for involvement in data analysis leading to conference presentations and/or authorship in peer-reviewed journals.
• Education & Leadership: You will be encouraged to deliver formal teaching & lead a Quality Improvement (QI) project within the clinical trials unit.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
EMR opened in May 2007 and is led by Professor Costantino Pitzalis. The Centre is focused on the development of innovative therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to inflammatory and degenerative arthropathies, particularly rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.

The Centre is linked to the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre which was successfully awarded £28 million in funding in 2022. It is one of the leading centres worldwide in biopsy-driven clinical trials in RA, having recently completed two of the first stratified, biopsy-driven, multicentre, randomised controlled trials in RA: R4RA, the results of which were published in and Nature Medicine, the STRAP trial (pending publication). Mile End Hospital is also the primary recruiter to the PEAC/PEsAC Study, which has provided an extensively phenotyped cohort of patients with inflammatory arthritis linked to detailed pathobiological data since 2008, paving the way for precision medicine trials in inflammatory arthritis.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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