Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Fixed-term, 36 months

Full-time, 35 hours per week

We are looking for a talented researcher to join our team led by Dr. Jing Qiu within the Edinburgh Centre of UK Dementia Research Institute.

The opportunity:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on an exciting project (Targeting Nrf2 in brain endothelial cells as a novel therapeutic strategy against Vascular Dementia) funded by British Heart Foundation within a team of outstanding scientists and clinicians, including Dr. Jing Qiu (PI), Professor Karen Horsburgh (Co-I), Dr. Andrea Caporali (Co-I), Professor Joanna Wardlaw (Co-I), and Dr. James Loan (Co-I). Relevant publications include Zou et al. (doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.21.619507) and He et al. (doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.14.623657). For informal enquiries contact Jing.Qiu@ed.ac.uk.

The salary for this post is UE07 £40,247 - £47,874 per annum.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• A strong track record of research publications commensurate with career stage
• A high level of technical and theoretical knowledge in your current subject area
• Ambition to develop a project and contribute intellectually to its direction
• Experience in a subset of relevant techniques
• Good interpersonal, time management and team-working skills

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