Research Fellow (Bioinformatics) UCL

Vacancy Reference Number

1881647

Closing Date

13 Mar 2022

Salary

Appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Research Assistant Grade 6B (salary 32,217 - £33,958 per annum) with payment

Address

UK DRI at UCL, Queen Square

Duration

The post is available from February 2022 and is funded by a grant from the MRC and UK DRI for two years in the first instance.

Dementia is the greatest health challenge of our century.

To date there is no way to prevent it or even slow its progression, and there is an urgent need to fill the knowledge gap in our basic understanding of the diseases that cause it.

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the biggest UK initiative driving forward research to fill this gap.

We are a globally leading multidisciplinary research institute of 700 staff investigating the spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders causing dementia, with laboratory-based research groups located at University College London, the University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, Edinburgh University, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Department of Neuromuscular Diseases is a hub for clinical and research excellence across the spectrum of spinal cord and neuromuscular diseases. Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work on identifying the underlying mechanisms of ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a rapidly progressive, incurable and fatal disease that causes the degeneration of motor neurons (MNs) and consequent generalized paralysis.

The successful applicant will work at the interface between a computational group, based at the UCL Genetics Institute (under the supervision of Dr Maria Secrier) and wet labs based at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (Dr Pietro Fratta, ProfAessor Adrian Isaacs), with the opportunity to balance the time spent in both locations depending on the needs and preferences of the candidate.

Person Criteria

Applicants must have a PhD in Neuroscience, Biostatistics, Mathematics, Physics or related discipline, experience with scientific programming (R, Python and MATLAB) and computational biology, ideally high throughput sequence data analysis. The ability to work in a diverse group including computational and experimental neurobiologists, to write clearly and succinctly for publication, to prioritise own work for deadline and to present research findings with authority and coherence are also requirements. Experience in neuroscience and advanced statistics is desirable.

Contact Details

If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Samantha Robinson, HR Officer, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, email: IoN.HRAdmin@ucl.ac.uk