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Research Associate or Research Fellow (Genetic Epidemiology/Applied Data Science)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (GB)
Salary
£38,304 – £42,652 (Research Associate) or £46,292 – £48,861 (Research Fellow) including London Weigh
Closing date
1 Nov 2020

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Applications are invited for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher to contribute their expertise in genetic epidemiology research and applied data science as part of large national and international collaborations. Based between the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and St. John's Institute of Dermatology at King's College London, the post-holder will undertake research on behalf of the Europe-wide BIOMAP (Biomarkers in Atopic Dermatitis and Psoriasis) consortium, funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative.

Inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis result in substantial morbidity and public health costs. The planned research aims to identify genetic factors associated with specific and clinically relevant outcomes (including disease subtypes, progression and treatment response), study their interaction with environmental risk factors, and use them to build and assess clinical prediction models. We will also seek to infer mechanistic understanding via integration of transcriptomic and other omic datasets. The post-holder will make use of richly phenotyped large-scale genomic datasets, including data from the MRC funded Psoriasis Stratification to Optimize Relevant Therapy (PSORT) programme (for which our group leads the genetic analysis), UK Biobank, and other relevant datasets made available via BIOMAP.

The post-holder will be responsible for the development and implementation of computational and statistical approaches to these analyses, working closely within the research group and with external collaborators (PSORT, BIOMAP). Candidates that can demonstrate an outstanding skillset and significant relevant postdoctoral experience will be considered for appointment as a Research Fellow; they will be expected to lead research projects with greater autonomy, and develop novel translational research proposals.

This is a full-time, fixed-term contract for 3 years (but not beyond 31st January 2024)

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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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