Research Associate - Comprehensive Cancer Centre
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 6, £37,412 to £44,015 per annum, inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance
- Closing date
- 12 Mar 2019
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- Academic Discipline
- Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health, Medicine & Dentistry, Other Health & Social Care
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Research Associate
Department : Comprehensive Cancer Centre
We seek a highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic computational biologist to develop advanced computational methods for the integrated analysis of oesophageal cancer molecular and clinical data from the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and the Oesophageal Cancer Clinical and Molecular Stratification (OCCAMS) Consortium.
The post is funded through a Cancer Research UK Programme Award aimed to study key molecular modifications that drive cancer and/or that are relevant to therapy.
Specific projects will be discussed directly with the candidates during the interview. Examples of project currently ongoing in the lab include the identification of somatic alterations contributing to cancer progression and the variation of intratumour heterogeneity in space and time in response to therapy.
Our group has a long-standing interest in applying systems biology approaches to study cancer and we are a highly multidisciplinary team combining computational and wet-lab approaches.
We are part of the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences of King's College London and are seconded to the laboratory of the Francis Crick Institute where the post will be based.
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years.
This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.
The selection process will include a panel interview.
Grade and Salary : Grade 6, £37,412 to £44,015 per annum, inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance.
Job ID : 010106
Close Date : 12-Mar-2019
Contact Person : Francesca Ciccarelli
Contact Details : francesca.ciccarelli@kcl.ac.uk / Tel +44 (0)20 3796 3460
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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.
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