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Virologist, Quality
Assurance
Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, NW London Closing date: 4 July 2008
The UK National External Quality
Assessment Service for Microbiology is organised from the Health
Protection Agency, Centre for Infections. UK NEQAS is recognised
throughout Europe and beyond as a major contributor to quality assurance
in clinical diagnostic microbiology. See our website for further
information about our schemes: www.ukneqasmicro.org.uk
A vacancy exists for a virologist
to manage the virology schemes of the UK National Quality Assessment
Service for Microbiology. The job holder will be responsible for:
the smooth operation and organisation of the schemes; data analysis;
compilation of articles for publication; drive research and development
of new and established schemes. The successful candidate will be
required to actively contribute to the business development of the
unit and to improve working/quality practices.
£40,157-£47,380
pa. Click
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Postdoctoral Research
Assistant
Centre for Infectious Disease, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science,
Barts and the London Closing date: 4 July 2008
We are seeking a senior research
assistant to implement a continuing project and direction for the
recently established Clinical TB and HIV Group in their new laboratories
i.e. the effect of tuberculosis bacterial variation on HIV replication/activity
at the level of the innate immune system (e.g. Cytokine variation,
replication, role of Toll-like receptors etc.) in model tissue culture
systems and donor PBMCs, and the molecular interface between the
two diseases.
Research
Associate, Second Infectious Intestinal Disease Study Telephone
Survey
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East
Anglia Closing date: 4 July 2008
We are seeking suitably qualified
applicants for the full-time post of Research Associate in the School
of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice. It is available for a fixed-term
to 31 May 2010. You will be expected to co-ordinate and supervise
the telephone survey component of the Second Infectious Intestinal
Disease study (IID2). As part of this role you will be managing
a small team of telephone interviewers.
£28,290 to £33,780 per annum. Click
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Research Technician
School of Medicine, Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation,
University of Leicester Closing date: 4 July 2008
We wish to recruit a motivated
individual to provide technical support on a project looking at
the assimilation and uptake of long chain fatty acids by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Experience in general microbiological and/or bacteriological
techniques is essential and some experience of work at containment
level 3 would be desirable.
£18,710 to £22,332. Click
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Epidemiology & Surveillance
Scientist, Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI)
East of England Regional Epidemiology Unit, HPA Cambridge
Closing date: 6 July 2008
The successful candidate will
work closely with the HCAI lead Consultant Epidemiologist at the
East of England Regional Epidemiology Unit, whilst also contributing
to the HCAI agenda in London and the South East Regions in addition
to the East of England through working with the HPA Regional Directors
of these regions.
As the successful candidate
you will be expected to produce timely reports of HCAIs in the East
of England using routine sources of information as well as developing
appropriate new analyses and presentations of existing and novel
data streams.
£36,112 - £42,335. Click
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Research Associate/Fellow,
Statistics
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Closing date: 10 July 2008
The research project, under
the supervision of Professor Philip O'Neill (Nottingham) and Dr
Ben Cooper (Health Protection Agency (HPA), London), will address
a number of important questions relating to the epidemiology and
population biology of multiply antibiotic resistant organisms such
as MRSA and GRE. This will be achieved by developing state-of-the-art
approaches for analysing hospital infection data sets using Markov
chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. The project is multidisciplinary
and the person appointed will be expected to work closely with subject
experts, using knowledge of the microbiology, epidemiology and genetics
of the pathogens to construct transmission models and interpret
data.
£23,002 - £33,780 per annum. Click
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Senior Lecturer in Child
Health (Clinical)
School of Medicine, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation,
University of Leicester Closing date: 10 July 2008
The University of Leicester,
in association with the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL)
NHS Trust, invites applications from registered medical practitioners
who are on or be eligible to be, on the Specialist Register for
Paediatrics. Applicants with interests in infectious disease, immunology
or respiratory medicine, who will enhance the research excellence
of the department and contribute to the delivery of high quality
clinical care, are encouraged to apply.
£73,403 - £98,962. Click
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Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cryomicroscopy of Macromolecular Complexes
National Institute for Medical Research, NW London Closing date: 10 July 2008
A 3 year Career Development
Fellow opportunity to study the structure and function of macromolecular
complexes by cryomicroscopy. Project areas include molecular machines
involved in the secretory pathway and virus infection. Excellent
facilities for biochemistry, light microscopy, computation, and
electron microscopy will be available, including a 120kV cryomicroscope
and a 300kV field emission gun microscope (G2 Polara).
£26,808 to £32,488. Click
here for more information.
Lecturer/Research Fellow,
Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine Closing date: 10 July 2008
We have a vacancy for a Lecturer/Research
Fellow to work in the unit's Tropical Epidemiology Group on the
design and analysis of research studies in developing countries.
The Group collaborates in epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS,
malaria, TB and other diseases of public health importance in sub-Saharan
Africa and other parts of the developing world. The person appointed
will contribute to the design and organisation of new field studies,
the statistical analysis of results and the preparation of research
findings for publication.
£33,518 to £44,836
per annum. Click
here for more information.
Locum
CCDC / Consultant in Health Protection
Thames Valley HPU, Health Protection Agency Closing date: 11 July 2008
You will assist in providing
TVHPU, surveillance, prevention and control of Communicable disease
and we anticipate that you will lead on the health aspects of non-infectious
diseases including environmental hazards.
You will investigate and manage
a full range of health protection incidents (including outbreaks
of diseases like meningitis and food poisoning), and will carry
out surveillance, co-ordination, support and monitoring of the local
implementation of specified key national programmes.
£60,669 - £96,830.
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here for more information.
NCSP
Regional Facilitator, South West England
Health Protection Agency
Closing date: 11 July 2008
The National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) is an opportunistic
screening programme for genital chlamydia infection, targeting sexually
active women and men less than 25 years of age, attending a range
of health and non-healthcare services. The Health Protection Agency
(HPA) is contracted by the Department of Health for the national
co-ordination and monitoring of the programme.
Working as part of the HPA’s
NCSP team, the Regional Facilitator will help to steer and guide
those involved in local co-ordination and service delivery to ensure
effective integration, programme development and monitoring of the
NCSP across their region.
£37,106-£44,527
pa. Click
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Research Assistant
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford
Closing date: 11 July 2008
Applications are invited for
the post of graduate research assistant in Professor Adrian Hill’s
group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. This new
post will form part of a genetics team working on identification
of susceptibility genes for major infectious diseases, especially
bacterial pathogens of the respiratory tract. The postholder will
be responsible for laboratory work related to high throughput genotyping,
development and maintaining of sample logistics, DNA extraction
from blood and saliva, and daily housekeeping of the laboratory
area.
£24,403 - £29,138.
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here for more information.
Locum
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control
North Yorkshire & The Humber Health Protection Unit, HPA York Closing date: 12 July 2008
You will have responsibility
for the North Yorkshire locality, shared with another full-time
CCDC already in post. The Unit is currently based on two sites and
you will be based in the York office, but you may be required from
time to time to assist in the Humber office which is based in Willerby,
East Yorkshire. It is anticipated that the whole Unit will eventually
be re-located to Selby but there is no set time for this to happen.
Your main area of responsibility
will be to provide infectious disease prevention and control and
emergency preparedness for the North Yorkshire area, in conjunction
with the second CCDC.
£73,403 - £98,962.
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here for more information.
Statistician for Primary
Care Databases (Research Associate)
Department Of Primary Care & Population Science, Unviersity
College London Closing date: 12 July 2008
The post holder will join a
team of researchers working collaboratively on studies derived from
large clinical databases. The main purpose of the post is to facilitate
and support development and execution of analysis protocols using
these databases. The main duties of the post involve analysis of
data from databases such as the General Practice Research Database
(GPRD) and The Health Improvement Network (THIN). The post holder
will be expected to pursue a primary care research area in mental
health, infectious diseases, or cardiovascular diseases, or in methodological
issues related to work with primary care databases and to contribute
to undergraduate medical teaching in the Evaluation of Evidence
course, up to 6 sessions per year.
£30,115 - £34,489
p.a. Click
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Postdoctoral
Researcher
School of Infection and Host Defence, University of Liverpool Closing date: 16 July 2008
You will be working on a project
funded by the Dr Hadwen Trust aimed at studying the population behaviour
of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in relation to infections in cystic fibrosis.
You will join a team working on various aspects of genetic diversity
amongst bacterial pathogens.
Research Associate
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Institute of Child Health,
University College London Closing date: 17 July 2008
Experience working with phages
would be an advantage as would experience of electron microscopy
of viruses. The Research Associate must hold a PhD or equivalent
in a related subject. The successful post-holder will also require
excellent laboratory, organisational and communication skills. The
postholder will work in the laboratories at Great Ormond Street
Hospital and ICH. There will be collaboration with Professor Maggie
Smith of the University of Aberdeen and with Dr Nick Thomson of
the Sanger Institute, Cambridge.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
in Immunology
Division of Cell & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Imperial College London Closing date: 18 July 2008
We are seeking two new permanent
members of academic staff to be based at the South Kensington Campus
of Imperial College London. Applicants should have a strong record
of academic achievement and be able to direct an exciting independent
research programme in an area of immunology that synergises with
our current research activities, such as the immunology of infectious
disease, innate immunity or molecular immunology. Molecular and
Cellular Imaging is a new strategic focus across Imperial and we
are especially interested in applicants wishing to establish a research
programme in imaging immunology in the whole organism.
£40,050 - £49,400 per annum. Click
here for more information.
Research Associate/Fellow,
Autoimmune Pathogenesis Of Herpesvirus Infection
School of Veterinary Medicine & Science, University of Nottingham Closing date: 18 July 2008
MCF is a fatal lymphoproliferative
disease of various animals caused by either of two gammaherpesviruses
- alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 or ovine herpesvirus-2. The disease
is characterised by a dramatic auto-destructive immune pathology
involving multiple tissues and the action of dysregulated, infected
lymphocytes. This is an exciting project to explore the underlying
mechanism of this unique disease and work within a dynamic and multiple-collaborative
group.
£23,002 - £33,780.
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here for more information.
Postdoctoral Mathematical
Biologist
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford Closing date: 18 July 2008
We seek a postdoctoral mathematical
biologist to take up a 12 month post as a James Martin Research
Fellow in the Institute for Emerging Infections at Oxford University
(http://www.emdis.ox.ac.uk/). The research fellow will be responsible
for developing new mathematical models of the dynamics, evolution
and control of RNA viruses. The postholder will be supervised by
Professor Angela McLean and will join a friendly group of about
ten mathematical biologists working on the population dynamics of
infectious diseases.
£27,466 - £33,780
p.a. Click
here for more information.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Section of Molecular Gastroenterology
Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine (LIMM), University of Leeds Closing date: 23 July 2008
You will work on a collaborative European Commission
project investigating the links between infection with pathogens
and cancer. The aims of the project are to investigate the molecular
pathways by which the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori causes
gastric cancer.
With a degree in basic biological sciences and
a PhD in molecular biology, microbiology or cell biology, you should
have an interest in the cell and molecular biology of gastric carcinogenesis.
Home Office training for modules 1, 2 and 3 is highly desirable.
£28,290 - £33,780 p.a. Click
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Post-Doctoral Research
Fellows, Immune Responses To Salmonella Infection
Division Of Immunity & Infection, University of Birmingham Closing date: 25 July 2008
Applications are invited for
2 post-doctoral fellowship positions. The first is funded by the
MRC to study how antibody responses to Salmonella develop and the
second is funded by the BBSRC to study the biology of flagellin
and its role in CD4 T cell-mediated immunity to Salmonella.
The MRC post will focus on
the atypical antibody response Salmonella induces and how this can
improve our understanding of B cell responses to bacteria and whether
these findings can improve vaccines against this pathogen. The BBSRC
post will examine the immunomodulatory effects of flagellin on the
host and how the immunodominance of responses to this antigen during
infection influences immunity.
£25,888 to £33,780.
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here for more information.
Clinical Lecturer/Honorary
SpR or StR in Child Health
School of Medicine, Clinical Division of Child Health, University
of Leicester Closing date: 25 July 2008
The post offers the opportunity
to those with outstanding potential as clinical academics to complete
Specialist Training, further develop their academic skills, and
to compete for an external grant funding. An honorary contract will
be sought from the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Research in fields compatible
with the primary interests of the School will be considered e.g.
immunology/infection, cardiovascular, oncology as well as clinical
subspecialties including neonatology, intensive care and infant
mortality.
£30,231 - £52,346pa.
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Research Fellow, Dopamine
in Toxoplasma infection and behaviour
Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of
Leeds Closing date: 25 July 2008
A post is open for a full time
Research Fellow for a fixed term of 16 months from 1 September 2008
to pursue the source of increased levels of dopamine caused by Toxoplasma
infection and the effects on behaviour. You will apply molecular
techniques and biochemistry to the parasite Toxoplasma. This project
is in collaboration with Prof. Joanne Webster (Imperial College,
London) where part of the studies will commence and is funded by
the Stanley Medical Research Institute.
£23,002 - £27,466
p.a. Click
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Research Fellow
Infection and Immunity, Biological Sciences, University of Warwick Closing date: 25 July 2008
Research into the life cycle
of HIV is extremely important to uncover new ways to prevent virus
replication. The aim of this project is to characterise the interaction
between HIV and the cellular translation machinery, and investigate
the mechanism that HIV uses to promote translation of its own proteins.
You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, and have good communication
and interpersonal skills. A PhD in a relevant discipline is essential,
and experience in molecular biology and tissue culture techniques
is desirable.
£25,888 - £33,780
pa. Click
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Biomedical Scientist,
Novel and Dangerous Pathogens
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, HPA, Salisbury Closing date: 31 July 2008
You will be a key member of
the Special Pathogens Reference Unit (SPRU) which provides diagnostic
and reference services for pathogenic Arboviruses, Haemorrhagic
Fever viruses, Rickettsiae and a number of Hazard Group 3 bacterial
pathogens. The successful candidate will take a lead role in the
delivery of SPRU diagnostic service with specific responsibility
in supporting management of the Laboratory’s Quality Management
System.
Proven experience in a broad
range of diagnostic bacteriological and virological techniques appropriate
to the post will be required.
£28,313 - £37,326.
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Clinical and Non Clinical
Professors
College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham
Closing date: 4 August 2008
A reorganisation of structures
at the University of Birmingham has led to a new College of Medical
and Dental Sciences. This, together with the recent launch of the
Birmingham Clinical Research Academy in partnership with our largest
NHS Trust - University Hospital Birmingham Foundation NHS Trust
- has resulted in new and exciting opportunities at Professorial
level. Join us, and you will have the chance to interact with a
vibrant research culture delivered through a focussed research strategy
that provides critical mass in our flagship areas of International
Excellence.
Up to 14 Professorial appointments
will enhance internationally renowned basic and translational research
in our flagship themes of Cancer, Hormones and Genes, Cardiovascular,
Neurosciences and Immunity and Infection.
Research Associate
Division of Cell & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Imperial College London Closing date: 4 August 2008
You will assist in scientific
research dealing with essential molecular mechanisms involved in
bacteria/hosts interaction and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis.
More specifically the project aims at studying chaperone-usher pathways
(Cup). These pathways are involved in the assembly of fimbrial structures
at the bacterial cell surface. The purpose of the post is to characterize
one of these Cup systems, to understand its role in biofilm formation
and in host colonization and to develop the molecular characterization
of a regulatory network that controls cup gene expression. This
regulatory network involves two-component regulatory systems and
ci-di-GMP signaling process.
£25,310 - £32,180
per annum. Click
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