Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

We are seeking a clinical academic to join our thriving translational rheumatology unit. You will be either in the early stages of your independent career and on a steep trajectory of success, or an established clinical academic with a national and developing international reputation in your chosen field. Your research will be based in the Faculty of Medical Sciences. Clinical activities will be based at the Freeman Hospital's Musculoskeletal Unit, one of the busiest clinical rheumatology units in the UK. We have a range of busy specialist clinics that cover the breadth of rheumatology, supported by an infrastructure to facilitate clinical and translational research.

Rheumatology research in Newcastle has an outstanding international reputation, with three successive EULAR Centre of Excellence awards (2010-2025). Musculoskeletal disease is also a key theme in our NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, providing invaluable research infrastructure. Examples of our recent research include the development of a cellular therapy (autologous tolerogenic dendritic cells) to induce tolerance in people with inflammatory arthritis, trials of a potential anti-fibroblast therapy to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and an experimental medicine model to better understand the causes of disease flare in rheumatoid arthritis. We have also led major UK collaborations studying the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthritis.

Your field of interest can be within any subspecialty of rheumatology but we are particularly interested in individuals with a connective tissue disease interest, who can leverage research opportunities from our extensive range of specialty clinics. We are a translational research group, with an emphasis on immunological mechanisms of disease, but increasingly there are opportunities for researchers with a primary interest in other areas such as data research. Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals also provides excellent infrastructure for delivering clinical research and clinical trials.

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