Research Fellow in Brain Vascular Biology

The Group of CNS Angiogenesis and Neurovascular Link / Brain Vasculature and Perivascular Niche headed by neurosurgeon-neuroscientist Associate Professor Dr Thomas Wälchli is one of the laboratories of the University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute in the Department of Oncology of the University College London (UCL).

The overarching vision of the research of Associate Professor Dr Thomas Wälchli, MD-PhD, FMH neurosurgery is to understand how the brain vasculature is regulated during brain development, in the adult healthy brain, and in various vascular-dependent brain diseases such as brain tumours and brain vascular malformations. The UCL Cancer Institute is a £40 million investment in central London based at University College London (UCL), one of the world’s top universities and a founding member of the Francis Crick Institute. The Institute draws together over 400 scientists working together to develop world-class basic and translational cancer research.

The Group of Brain Vasculature and Perivascular Niche focuses on vascular growth and the development of blood vessels (angiogenesis) in the brain, including endothelial cells and perivascular cells of the neurovascular unit/perivascular niche, and on brain vascular heterogeneity in development, health and disease.

The post is funded for until 31^st October 2025 in the first instance, with possibility of extension.

The successful candidate is be expected to be a driving force of these highly novel, original and competitive projects, to produce independent and original research in this area, to develop and apply new concepts and to have a creative approach to problem solving.

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 with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.

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