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Research Associate - Biomedical Data and Image Analyst

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£39,882 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
13 Jul 2022

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Academic Discipline
Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health
Job Type
Research Related
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Job description

This post will work closely with Dr Paul Barber in the multidisciplinary Cancer Biology and Imaging Group of Prof. Tony Ng. Working within the KCL Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Cancer Research UK City of London Centre the post holder will be exploiting machine learning and deep learning in very clinically and patient facing research, to predict diagnosis, risk, treatment response and prognosis. The position entails combining data from multiple modalities, such as immune profiling, cell imaging, blood tests and medical imaging using novel machine learning methods to predict patient outcome. A significant subset of these activities will be developing algorithms to analyse imaging CyTof and immunofluorescence image data. This will involve exploiting image features segment and identify individual cells in 2D and 3D, and then measure morphological and positional statistics from tissue and organoid samples.  

 

This post will be offered on  a fixed-term contract for 1 year, which could be extended up to 5 years 

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

 

Key responsibilities

•       To work within the research group and the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre to achieve project objectives.  

•       To develop software algorithms for image and signal processing.

•       To provide data analysis and machine learning expertise and support to a range of multidisciplinary projects within the City of London Centre. 

•       To maintain detailed and precise laboratory notes and software documentation.

•       To understand relevant mathematics, software and the relevant literature. sufficiently to advise and support effectively and take own ideas forward and lead new projects.

•       To attend, and report research results at regular group and national or international meetings.

•       To contribute to the dissemination of scientific results by means of writing papers for publication and presenting orally and in poster form at national and international meetings.

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria  

1.       Candidate must have (or be studying for) a PhD in a relevant field of research. 

2.       Bachelor's degree in Physics, Mathematics, life sciences, biomedical sciences, Engineering or Computer Science or another relevant quantitative subject (BSc, BEng or similar). 

3.       Demonstrable knowledge and prior work with machine learning. 

4.       Strong software and data processing skills: experience of programming in one or more languages (e.g. R, C/C++, Python, Matlab).  

5.       Practical experience of algorithm development for image and/or data processing. 

6.       Experience of presentation of data at local/national/international meetings. 

7.       Experience in writing scientific manuscripts and peer reviewed publications. 

8.       Laboratory management including maintenance of logs, record-keeping and organizational skills. 

9.       Ability to work as part of a team and willingness and ability to exchange information with team members, internal and external contacts. 

10.   Ability to organise and prioritise work. 

 

Desirable criteria

1.       Experience in writing research proposals. 

2.       Experience with student supervision.

Company

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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