Senior Biostatistician

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £46,485 to £55,295 with potential progression once in post to £62,098

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2029

Background

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) registered clinical trials units in the country. The Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU) is based in the School of Medical Sciences at University of Birmingham. The CRCTU employs a multidisciplinary team of around 200 staff including statisticians, systematic reviewers, trial management staff, research nurses, monitors, programmers, administrators and IT staff. It specialises in running early and late phase clinical trials in adults and children.

Alongside trials portfolios in a broad range of adult solid cancers and haemato-oncology, CRCTU is the national lead for prestigious programmes of research for children’s cancer and leukaemia trials. The unit also includes two trials teams dedicated to non-cancer trials: the Diagnostics, Drugs, Devices and Biomarkers team (D3B), running mainly early-phase trials, and the Inflammation, Advanced and Cellular Therapy (I-ACT) team, specialising in trials in rheumatology and advanced therapies. Recently, CRCTU has been awarded funding from LifeArc, as part of a consortium with Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast, to establish a new trials team specialising in trials in rare diseases (known as Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials team).

Role Summary

The CRCTU has a position available for Senior Biostatistician (Grade 8) to join its biostatistics team. The post holder will work primarily with Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials team to establish a portfolio of trials in rare diseases.

The biostatistics team consists of around 27 biostatisticians, working on a varied portfolio of trials. Biostatisticians play a central role in the Unit, actively liaising with clinical investigators, contributing to the design and conduct of clinical trials, being responsible for interim and final analysis of clinical trial data and having a key role in the presentation and publication of results. As academic members of the University, Biostatisticians contribute to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.   

The biostatistics team within the CRCTU is actively involved in developing and implementing novel statistical methodology related to clinical trials and associated translational research. Members of the team are encouraged to pursue their own research interests and opportunities exist to carry out postgraduate qualifications.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will have an MSc or PhD in Statistics or a relevant subject and at this senior level must possess significant previous experience of working as an applied medical statistician and will be expected to take a lead statistical role in projects within a short time of appointment.

More information on CRCTU can be found at https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/crctu/index.aspx

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Simon Gates, email: S.Gates@bham.ac.uk 

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Closes: 10/03/2025

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