Research Fellow for Clinical Trails Models in Multiple Long-Term Conditions

Location: White City Campus (Hybrid)

About the role:

The Research Fellow will assist in designing, conducting, and interpreting large-scale clinical trials and systematic reviews with an overall goal of developing evidence-based recommendations that will improve the health of millions of women and men, both in the UK and more broadly.

Multiple Long-Term Conditions (a.k.a. Multimorbidity) or the coexistence of two or more health conditions in an individual has been overlooked as an important cause of early death and disability

One of our aims of is to determine whether treatment of specific diseases is affected by the presence of other diseases in multimorbid condition clusters and to conduct efficient clinical trials to test potential preventive and therapeutic interventions for men and women with multiple, long-term conditions.

What you would be doing:

• Design clinical trials within the field of multimorbidity.
• Conduct individual research, analysing detailed large-scale clinical trial data.
• Communicate research findings in the form of scientific publications, policy reports, conferences, or public meetings.
• Contribute to the BRC multimorbidity theme activities and meetings.
• Coordinate with other BRC thematic collaborators across Imperial College London.
• Share responsibility for shaping the research group’s plans and the writing of group-funding applications for new research projects.

What we are looking for:

• Ideally you should have medical background or experience in dealing with multiple-long term conditions (including, cardiology, general practice/internal medicine, nephrology, endocrinology, neurology).
• The position is also applicable to candidates without a medical background who have adequate training in clinical epidemiology, or biostatistics related to clinical trials.
• PhD degree (including clinical epidemiology, public health, statistics, data science and others) or equivalent research, industrial or commercial experience in clinical trials.
• You should have experience of analysing large-scale clinical trials, administrative databases or routinely collected health-related datasets.
• Knowledge of research methods and statistical procedures
• Practical experience within a research and clinical trial environment and / or publications in relevant and refereed journals

What we can offer you:

The Research Fellow will join our team of statisticians, epidemiologists, clinical research fellows, data scientists, health systems scientists, PhD students and support staff, and will be expected to contribute to various large-scale projects.

This post will offer you:

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity.
• Grow your career: Gain access to Imperial’s sector-leading dedicated career support for researchers as well as opportunities for promotion and progression
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days off a year and generous pension schemes).

Further Information

This is a full time and fixed -term role for 2 years based in The George Institute Scale Space Building Imperial College City. The post is available immediately..

Informal enquiries can be made to:

Peter Norsworthy p.norsworthy@imperial.ac.uk,

Anna Willis awillis@georgeinstitute.org.uk or

Prof Otavio Berwanger OBerwanger@georgeinstitute.org.uk

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