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Salary for this Role:
From £45,500 with benefits, subject to skills and experience.
Job Title:
Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist - C Swanton Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability LaboratoryReports to:
Charles Swanton CClosing Date:
11/Aug/.59 GMTJob Description:
Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist - C Swanton Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory
Reporting to: Charles Swanton, Principal Investigator, Deputy Clinical Director
Contact term: This is a full-time 2 year position on Crick terms and conditions of employment.
About us
The Francis Crick Institute is Europe's largest biomedical research institute under one roof. Our world-class scientists and staff collaborate on vital research to help prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases and neurodegenerative conditions.
The Crick is a place for collaboration, innovation and exploration across many disciplines. A space where the brightest minds can pursue big and bold ideas and discover answers to crucial scientific questions. We support them in a dynamic environment which fosters excellence with state-of-the-art infrastructure, cutting-edge facilities, and a creative and curious culture. We've removed traditional boundaries of departments, divisions and disciplines and instead have an open approach that supports every researcher. This gives us the freedom to take risks and carry out high-quality, pioneering research. Creating a space for discovery without boundaries helps us to turn our science into benefits for human health and the economy.
About the role
Our research direction investigates the role of cell lineage upon lung cancer initiation, both in homeostasis and in the context of challenge with non-mutagenic carcinogens.
Our research is committed to advancing our understanding the biology of lung tumour evolution based around analysis of next generation sequence (NGS) data and the tumour microenvironment from the TRACERx longitudinal lung cancer program. Leveraging genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic sequencing as well as spatial immunophenotyping data from patient samples, our aim is to trace the intricate evolutionary trajectories of lung tumours across space and time. This work will unveil the key drivers of cancer progression, immune resistance mechanisms, and potential vulnerabilities within the tumour landscape.
As a Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist in the Swanton lab, your main responsibilities will be to work with the informatics team on TRACERx project, whilst also contributing to other projects throughout the lab. If you have experience in Bioinformatics, are fluent in R or Python as well as experience in evolutionary or cancer biology, we would love to hear from you.
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What you will be doing
As a Postdoctoral Project Research Scientist at the Crick, some of your main responsibilities will be:
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