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| NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health Nucleus, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London | ||||||
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Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow in Bioinformatics to join the NIHR Specialist Biomedi-cal Research Centre for Mental Health (BRC-MH). The BRC-MH, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, undertakes translational research across 7 mental disorder specific themes and 3 Cross-cutting themes. The BRC-MH received a £3m infrastructure grant from Trustees of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Guys and St Thomas’ Trust (GSTT) Charity for a ‘Nucleus’ of IT developments, bioin-formatics and biostatistics to support a variety of strategically important BRC-MH research initiatives. The successful candidate will be expected to perform bioinformatics research of an international standard com-plementary to the overall research strategy of the BRC-MH. This strategy includes the use of expression profil-ing, genomics, proteomics and other approaches to identify biomarkers of progression, disease and treatment response and in further understanding mental illness. The successful candidate will have a relevant PhD and a proven track record of bioinformatics research. S/he will conduct and contribute to analyses of genetics, genom-ics, transcriptomics and proteomic data alongside data from neuroimaging, laboratory and clinical areas for themes from across the BRC-MH. S/he will therefore need to be familiar with relevant database systems and languages such as MySQL, Perl and R. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Richard Dobson(Email: richard.j.dobson@kcl.ac.uk). Where applicants are short listed for interview, references will normally be taken up prior to interview. Applicants who do not wish any referees to be so contacted should make this explic-itly clear on their application Salary range £33,070 to £39,038 pa (inclusive of £2, 323 London Allowance). To obtain further particulars, an application form and further information about the Institute, please see our web-site at http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/vacancies or alternatively email vacancies@iop.kcl.ac.uk. An application form including the names of two referees accompanied with a covering letter and an equal opportunities statement should be emailed to vacancies@iop.kcl.ac.uk . CV’s alone will not be accepted. Please quote reference number 09/R171 in all correspondence. Closing date for applications: 18 March 2010 Only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted. . We are unfortunately unable to reply to those ap-plicants who have not been short listed and invited for interview. However, we would like to thank all candi-dates for their applications and for their interest in working for the BRC-MH at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Equality of opportunity is College policy |
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