Research Assistant

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

We are seeking a Research Assistant to support research on malaria transmission and vaccination. The postholder will develop and apply serological tools to characterise antibody responses to malaria parasites and vaccines, including their magnitude, breadth and antigen specificity, and contribute to the development of approaches for investigating antibody function. These tools will be used to study naturally acquired and vaccine-induced immunity, and patterns of malaria exposure in field and clinical studies.

The role will focus on multiplex bead-based assays and analysis of the resulting data. It will also offer opportunities to apply these approaches to other infectious diseases and to work with a multidisciplinary, international research team at collaborating research sites.

The successful candidate will have a relevant first degree in the field of immunology, infectious diseases or a closely related subject, relevant experience in performing Luminex-based multiplex serological assays on human samples, including samples from field-based studies of infectious diseases, with demonstrable evidence of hands-on sample preparation, plate processing and use of appropriate controls, relevant analytical skills in processing, analysing and visualising multiplex serological datasets and associated field-study data in R, with demonstrable evidence of writing or adapting scripts for data cleaning, quality control and preparation of scientific figures. Further particulars are available in the job description.

The post is fixed term for 15 months from 15 November 2026 (or up to 14 February 2028) with the possibility of an extension and full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE. The post is funded by the Medical Research Council and is available immediately. The salary will be on the LSHTM Academic salary scale, Grade 5 in the range £40,784 - £46,643 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). 

The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM, Keppel Street.

Applications should be made by clicking the 'Apply' button above. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. Please quote reference ITD-DIB-2026-17.

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable. 

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

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