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Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
15 Mar 2021

Job Details

Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: School of Health Sciences
Salary: $73,669 - $99,964 (Level A)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 9.5% super

This position is in the Downie Laboratory: Anterior Eye, Clinical Trials and Research Translation Unit within the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne. The Principal Investigator of this research Unit is A/Prof Laura Downie.

The research undertaken in this Unit has a strong translational focus, combining discovery research, clinical studies, and evidence synthesis and implementation science, as the basis for improving patient outcomes.

The current scope of research in the Unit spans:

  • Investigating tears as a platform for understanding human health: linking tear analysis with the clinical characterisation of ocular and systemic disease;
  • Clinical trials to test new diagnostics and therapeutics, with a primary focus on conditions affecting the ocular surface; and
  • Supporting the translation of evidence into practice, including undertaking systematic reviews, and developing and evaluating interventions to support evidence-based practice.

The Unit has extensive collaborations within the University of Melbourne, as well as internationally (including with researchers at the Universities of Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford). More information about current projects, and recent research outputs, is available at:

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/27716-laura-downie

This fixed-term Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow position focuses on research in anterior eye disease and tear biomarkers.

A major aspect of the role relates to undertaking research for a NHMRC Development Grant project (APP1172192: ADMiER: A novel, point-of-care device to diagnose and subtype dry eye disease) under the direct report of A/Prof Laura Downie (Principal Investigator), and in close collaboration with the engineering team of Co-Investigator Prof Leslie Yeo (RMIT University).

This project aims to deliver a new clinical testing device that measures the physical properties of tears to accurately diagnose dry eye disease. The technology has the capacity to be a transformative advance over existing tests, and aims to deliver a novel device to the eye care clinical environment to improve the identification of tear dysfunction. This is a milestone-focussed project, with clearly defined deliverables. The incumbent will also contribute to the wider research activity of the Unit, as detailed above.

The main physical location for the role will be within the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus.

Position Description

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Applications close: 15 Mar 2021 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time

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The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.

Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.

Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.

Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.

The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.

In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.

More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.

For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au

*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015

Company info
Telephone
+61 (3) 8344 4000
Location

Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia

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