Application closing date 04/03/2020  
Salary £33,797 per annum.  
Job category/type Research
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Job description

Queen's University Belfast is a driver of innovation based on our talented, multinational workforce. Throughout the University, our academics are collaborating across disciplines to develop new discoveries and insights, working with outside agencies and institutions on projects of international significance. We are connected and networked with strategic partnerships across the world, helping us to expand our impact on wider society locally, nationally and globally. The University is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best global talent within an environment that enables them to realise their full potential.

We are a leader in gender equality and diversity, and are one of the UK's most successful universities in the Athena SWAN initiative which promotes gender equality and career progression. The School of MDBS holds an Athena SWAN Silver award in recognition of our commitment and success in addressing gender equality, representation, progression and success for all our staff.  We are ranked 1st in the UK for knowledge transfer partnerships, (Innovate UK) 9th in the UK for University facilities (Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018) and 14th in the UK for research quality (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019).

Based in Belfast, a modern capital city, our beautiful campus is surrounded by abundant acres of parkland and is renowned as one of the safest and affordable cities in the UK. The choice of local Schools from pre-nursery upwards are some of the best available, and lovers of the outdoors can enjoy any number of activities from rowing and kayaking to top class golf among many others. We are immensely proud of what our city and our University will offer you.

Our five core values - Integrity, Connected, Ambition, Respect, Excellence - are shared by our staff and students, representing the expectations we have for ourselves and each other, guiding our day-to-day decisions and the way we behave as individuals in an international organisation. 

The Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine (WWIEM) is an interdisciplinary research centre which is committed to the highest quality scientific endeavour, with over 250 basic and clinical scientists working on site.  Our mission is to understand the mechanisms of disease and use that understanding to develop innovative new treatments and therapies to improve patient outcomes. 

We are recruiting for a Research Fellow for a maternity cover post who will be a highly productive, ambitious and collaborative member of a research team led by Dr. Selinda Orr in the WWIEM. This 9 month position will involve working as part of a research programme that is investigating host immune responses to fungal pathogens such as Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus in order to identify potential immunotherapy targets. The project will utilise in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models of fungal infection and is based in a highly collaborative team, carrying out basic and clinical research with partners locally, nationally and internationally.

 The successful candidate must: 

• Have or about to obtain a PhD in Immunology or a closely related area 
• Dept of Health personal licence (modules 1-3)
• At least 3 years recent, research experience in immunology 
• Recent extensive hands-on experience in at least three of the following: 

1. In vivo models of disease
2. Tissue culture
3. Multi-parameter flow cytometry
4. ELISAs
5. RNA processing and RNAseq analysis

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