Postdoctoral Research Associate in Tuberculosis-Diabetes

About the Role

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will play a pivotal role in set-up and conduct of genetic association studies and cell culture studies investigating impacts of diabetes mellitus on susceptibility to tuberculosis. 

About You

You will be educated to degree level in a relevant field, and already hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD in a relevant subject area. You will also have experience in researching effects of diabetes mellitus on susceptibility to tuberculosis; experience with PBMC isolation, M. tuberculosis macrophage infection models and dual RNA sequencing; and experience in omics analysis and R programming.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The postholder will join Queen Mary and Barts Health Tuberculosis Centre, a large and growing team of tuberculosis researchers at The Blizard Institute, whose vision is to deliver step-changes in scientific understanding, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis infection and disease in East London.

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, truly 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.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Prof Reinout van Crevel at r.vancrevel@qmul.ac.uk or Dr Divya Towai at d.tiwari@qmul.ac.uk. 

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