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Senior Lecturer Bioinformatics

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Grade 8: £56,059 – £64,405 per annum, inclusive of £3,500 London allowance.
Closing date
2 Feb 2020

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We are seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics to develop bioinformatics capabilities across a number of research programmes which form part of a collaboration between the King’s College London and a large biopharmaceutical company. We are significantly expanding our in-house Bioinformatics group and we are looking for a talented and motivated bioinformatician leader to play a key role in accelerating the translation of research findings into clinical practice. The postholder will be responsible for designing a major database, developing pipelines to analyse and integrate multiple biological research and clinical data streams, and generating insights that drive the elucidation of key disease mechanisms.

The position will involve bioinformatics analysis and interpretation of genetic, transcriptomic and immunological data derived from serially collected primary disease samples and associated in vivo work. The role requires experience in disease genomics and the computational research skills required to develop and deploylarge data pipelines and supervise downstream integrated analyses including modelling of complex multi-omic datasets.

The post holder will provide broad expertise in contribution to the Department and School-wide activities in the area of health informatics and Precision Medicine. They will offer leadership across the bioinformatics group to coordinate research activity in the area, and work closely with partner organisations involved in R&D. The postholder will be involved in appointing 2 junior bioinformatics posts and contribute to building the educational opportunities for bioinformatics within the school and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students across divisions.

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 4 years.

This is a full-time (35hours/week).

The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation.

This post closes on 02 February 2020

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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