Location: | London |
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Salary: | £42,099 to £50,585 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 3rd September 2024 |
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Closes: | 20th September 2024 |
Job Ref: | B02-07285 |
About us
We are one of the world’s leading research centres for the study of prions and their wider relevance to neurodegenerative disease with a growing research activity in Alzheimer’s disease (www.prion.ucl.ac.uk).
The Institute is highly multidisciplinary with close integration of structural and molecular biology, genetics, cellular and animal models, small molecule and immuno-therapeutics and clinical research.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for an early post-doctoral scientist to join our team. The main purpose is to lead the laboratory work towards the development of a multi-protein seed amplification assay panel for the diagnosis and stratification of patients with dementia.
This is a fixed-term role until 30th November 2026 in the first instance.
A job description and person specification can be accessed on the UCL careers webpage.
About you
The post holder is expected to have some experience with seed amplification eg. RT-QuIC, PMCA or related methods, and more generally experience with biomarker analysis and human samples (a full list of essential and desirable criteria is listed in the job description). The work is collaborative requiring the ability to liaise with clinicians and other scientists. We expect to disseminate the work in journals, by scientific and lay presentations so experience here would be desirable.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• UCL Campus nursery
• UCL Campus gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
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