Research Technician
Job Description
About Us
We are one of the world’s leading research centres for the study of prions and their wider relevance to neurodegenerative disease with a growing research activity in Alzheimer’s disease (www.prion.ucl.ac.uk).
The Institute is highly multidisciplinary with close integration of structural and molecular biology, genetics, cellular and animal models, small molecule and immuno-therapeutics and clinical research.
MRC and UCL have jointly invested £30 million in provision of a dedicated new building in central London for the Institute supporting the vision to expand research in protein misfolding and aggregation in neurodegenerative disease.
The Institute is headed by Professor John Collinge FRS, and comprises MRC, UCL and grant funded clinicians, scientists, research/technical staff and professional services staff.
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Technician to join our team.
The post-holder will be funded by a grant “Elucidating the factors required for propagating human Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease prions” from the CJD Foundation.
The post-holder will be recruited to Programme 2: Cell biology and function of the prion protein in health and disease headed by Professor Parmjit Jat.
The post-holder will work closely with colleagues in Programme 2 to identify the cellular factors that are required in addition to the cellular prion protein for propagating human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) prions.
- An acceptable DBS check is required to carry out this role
- This is a fixed-term role until 31st December 2025 in the first instance
- We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.
- This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Professional Services Staff. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/conditions-service-research-teaching-and-professional-services-staff for more information.
About You
The successful candidate should have extensive experience bioinformatics, analysis of RNA-seq data, mammalian cell culture and western blotting.
A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
If you have any queries about the role or require reasonable adjustments/accessible format to apply online, please contact HR Manager, Amali De Silva [email protected]
The UCL Ways of Working supports colleagues to be successful and happy at UCL through sharing expectations around how we work – please visit ucl.ac.uk/ways-of-workingto find out more.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- UCL campus on-site nursery
- UCL campus on-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Athena Swan Status Statement
Our department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.
- download: P2 Research Technician JD.doc