Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 

This full-time role is available from January 2025 until 31 December 2027 on a fixed term basis.

The post

The MRC Centre for Medical Mycology wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate or Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in a newly funded MRC Programme seeking to optimise combination antifungal therapy. This MRC Programme Grant funded post is available from January 2025 on fixed-term basis till December 2027.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) Programme grant led by Professor Elaine Bignell (Co-Director of the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter), brings together an alliance of three world leading centres (MRC CMM, St. George’s University Hospital London and the University of Liverpool) to tackle antifungal resistance via a consortium called Fungi-CARE (Combinations Against Resistance Emergence), comprised of scientists, clinicians and pharmacologists.

Focusing on five key Candida pathogens, the overarching goals of this programme are to:

• Rationally select and develop optimised antifungal drug regimens, including combination therapies, that are effective and suppress the emergence of clinical antifungal drug resistance.
• Establish pre-clinical and early clinical rationale and know-how for future phase II/ III trials of optimised antifungal therapy for candidemia. 

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024).  We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

Further information

For further information please contact Elaine Bignell, E.Bignell@exeter.ac.uk

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