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Research Associate

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
The salary will be paid at Grade 6, £37,689 to £38,711 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance
Closing date
12 Oct 2019

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Job Type
Research Related
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Applications are invited for the position of Research Associate in the laboratories of Dr Aleksandar Ivetic & Professor Ajay Shah.

The post-holder will investigate the inflammatory mechanisms underlying myocardial infarction and its long-term impact on heart failure by utilising genetically engineered disease models. A range of molecular, cell biological and imaging (including microscopy and MRI) techniques will be employed in the study. The successful candidate will determine the role of neutrophils under homeostasis and under conditions of stress. Previous in vivo cardiac or vascular experience, experience in biochemical assays and cell/molecular biological assays is highly desirable.

The post is based within the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at the James Black Centre (King's Denmark Hill campus) as part of the King's College London BHF Centre of Research Excellence (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/scms/bhf-centre). King’s and the BHF Centre provide an excellent highly multidisciplinary environment with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities (https://www.kclwcic.co.uk/, https://brain-imaging.org/equipment/). Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Aleksandar Ivetic (aleksandar.ivetic@kcl.ac.uk).

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years, or until 30 November 2022​. This is a full-time - 100% full time equivalent.

The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation of work from previous post.

To apply, please register with the King’s College London application portal and complete your application online.

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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.

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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