Postdoctoral Research Associate

About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Blizard Institute. The project focuses on understanding the physiology of the area postrema in regulating the body–brain axis and energy homeostasis.

Applicants must have experience in stereotaxic surgery, venous cannulation, and intracardiac perfusion. Essential skills include metabolic phenotyping, analysis of metabolic cage data, glucose tolerance testing, and drug administration through various routes. Strong laboratory experience in brain tissue processing, cryostat sectioning, immunohistochemistry, RNAscope, fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, and molecular biology techniques such as ELISA and RT-PCR is also required.

About You
You will hold, or be close to completing, a PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience, Physiology, or a related field, with proven experience in, stereotaxic surgery, metabolic phenotyping, and neuroscience laboratory techniques including immunohistochemistry, RNAscope, fluorescence microscopy, and molecular biology methods such as ELISA and RT-PCR. You will be highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to work both independently and collaboratively, with strong communication and time-management skills and a willingness to learn and contribute to wider research projects.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD) is a significant constituent of Queen Mary University of London. It is organised into 6 separate Institutes, of which the Blizard Institute is one of the largest, with personnel of c420, financial turnover of c£60 million per annum; and research expenditure of over c£20 million per annum.

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.

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