Biostatistician

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

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 a Department within the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. The CRCTU employs a multidisciplinary team of around 200 staff including statisticians, 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 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 Rare Diseases Trials Acceleration Programme (RD-TAP)). The post holder will work primarily with this new team to establish a portfolio of trials in rare diseases. CRCTU also hosts a “node” of the Rare Disease Research UK platform, called CAPTIVATE, which is dedicated to methodological research for rare disease trials. The post holder will work closely with this group, and with colleagues in Newcastle University, to develop and implement innovative trial designs.

Role Summary

The post holder will provide statistical expertise and advice on the design, conduct and analysis of Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit’s (CRCTU) clinical trials and allied research. 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. 

Person Specification

MSc or PhD in Statistics OR a relevant higher degree with experience of working as an applied medical statistician.

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

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Closes: 28/04/2025

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