Research Associate

About us:

The postdoctoral scientist will join the group of Marzia Malcangio at the Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre within the School of Neuroscience IoPPN.

The School of Neuroscience is UK’s 2nd largest Neuroscience school with over 500 researchers and 200 PhD students. It is one of three schools at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. We are ranked 4th in the world for the total number of publications in neuroscience and 4th for the number of publication outputs in top 5% citations in neuroscience.

About King’s College London and the IoPPN

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on psychiatry and mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2021), and on this metric has risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2022) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs.

About the role:

A postdoctoral research associate position on neuroimmune interactions and pain has become available. This position is part of an MRC programme grant in collaboration with Queen Mary University London, University of Leeds and Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company.

1. Contribute towards a research programme, which has been conceived to examine the role of extracellular vesicle communication for communication between neurons and non-neuronal cells in chronic pain.
2. Being responsible for undertaking the programme of work
3. Conduct empirical research as required by the research programme.
4. Collect data and undertake any appropriate analysis of data as requested.
5. Maintain appropriate databases
6. Undertake literature and database searches for the research project
7. Develop new techniques as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of the research.
8. Display a professional attitude to matters of laboratory hygiene, organisation and safety
9. Any other relevant activities related to the project as appropriate.

This is a full-time (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed-term contract until 31/01/2030.

About you:

Essential criteria

1. Strong publication record
2. Work experience with mice
3. Work experience in laboratory setting
4. Cell culture
5. Flow cytometry
6. Molecular Biology (RNA extraction, reverse transcription, qPCR)
7. Knowledge in vesicle biology and technologies
8. PhD in Neuroscience, Neuroimmunologuy, Immunology or related disciplines (or pending results)

Desirable criteria

1. Rodent behavioural test
2. Experience in bioinformatics analysis
3. Immunohistochemistry and microscopy
4. Nanoparticle tracking analysis

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click the “Apply” button, above. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

*Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

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