Senior Quantitative Geneticist
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Research and Science
Skilled Worker
Job posted on November 20, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Description
Grade UE08: £49,250 and £60,321 per annum
CMVM/Institute for Regeneration and Repair/Centre for Inflammation and Research/Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub
Full-time: 35 hours per week, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns
Fixed-term: for 24 months
The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptionally talented and motivated Senior Quantitative Geneticist to join the Baillie Laboratory ( www.baillielab.net ), led by Prof Kenneth Baillie at the Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub.
The Baillie Lab is an interdisciplinary team of dedicated and highly capable people, focused on using genetics to find new therapies and treatments for critically ill patients. The team has made several contributions that have already improved medical practice. This includes using genetics to find the cause of unknown hepatitis in children ( Nature, 2023a ; Nature, 2023b ) and identifying 49 genetic variants underlying with critical illness in COVID-19 ( Nature, 2023 ; Nature, 2022 ).
The Baillie Lab run several large-scale projects and studies including GenOMICC ( www.genomicc.org ), ISARIC4C ( www.isaric4c.net ) and the Outbreak Data Analysis Platform ( www.odap.ac.uk ). The Baillie Lab also leads on the Edinburgh Molecular Mechanisms Cluster (EMMC) – a key cluster in the UKRI’s Human Functional Genomics Initiative ( https://www.ukri.org/news/28-5m-in-funding-for-human-functional-genomics-initiative/ )
As Senior Quantitative Genecist at the Baillie Lab, you will play a pivotal role in leading, developing, and running the bioinformatic pipelines of work across all projects. This is pro-active role, where you will have primary responsibility for maintaining current analyses and identifying new approaches to better understand critical illness.
This role will require the post holder to develop strong relationships with colleagues within and beyond the interdisciplinary team while pursuing new collaborations within the Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub and wider university.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. This post will be for 24 months.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa . Please note if the role is offered on a part-time basis, it may result in sponsorship being dependant on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant or the role no longer meeting the Home Office’s criteria for sponsorship.
Key dates to note
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR; Director, Professor David Dockrell) leverages peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research programmes and focussed collaboration, to characterise mechanisms of acute and chronic inflammation. CIR aims to characterise what promotes health at the molecular level in order to prevent the harmful consequences of inflammation in clinical medicine. Effort is targeted at: inhibiting the initiation of inflammation by blocking specific molecular triggers and by modulating cellular and tissue responses resulting in organ dysfunction; finding new approaches to modulate established inflammatory responses to limit tissue injury; and promoting safe resolution of inflammation to restore healthy structure and function of tissue.
The CIR has a broad interest in inflammatory disease in a range of tissues including in the lungs, kidney, liver, pancreas, bowel, bone, joints, skin, heart and brain. There is in-depth analysis of stimuli that induce or modify inflammation with detailed programmes considering the role of sex, development, auto-immunity, infection and other environmental influences. Importantly, the principles derived will have ready application to inflammatory and reparatory responses in virtually all physiological and pathological settings, including cancer and infection (not least COVID-19). Translation is aided by a commitment to novel diagnostic and imaging modalities and our proximity to patient groups and healthy volunteers in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
Our research aims align closely with the vision of IRR and other centres within IRR, to promote human health through in-depth understanding of tissue regeneration and repair, while developing a multi-pronged translational programme to effect therapeutic innovation in this area. IRR is located on the BioQuarter Campus, Edinburgh.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research
APPLY NOW
Grade UE08: £49,250 and £60,321 per annum
CMVM/Institute for Regeneration and Repair/Centre for Inflammation and Research/Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub
Full-time: 35 hours per week, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns
Fixed-term: for 24 months
The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptionally talented and motivated Senior Quantitative Geneticist to join the Baillie Laboratory ( www.baillielab.net ), led by Prof Kenneth Baillie at the Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub.
The Baillie Lab is an interdisciplinary team of dedicated and highly capable people, focused on using genetics to find new therapies and treatments for critically ill patients. The team has made several contributions that have already improved medical practice. This includes using genetics to find the cause of unknown hepatitis in children ( Nature, 2023a ; Nature, 2023b ) and identifying 49 genetic variants underlying with critical illness in COVID-19 ( Nature, 2023 ; Nature, 2022 ).
The Baillie Lab run several large-scale projects and studies including GenOMICC ( www.genomicc.org ), ISARIC4C ( www.isaric4c.net ) and the Outbreak Data Analysis Platform ( www.odap.ac.uk ). The Baillie Lab also leads on the Edinburgh Molecular Mechanisms Cluster (EMMC) – a key cluster in the UKRI’s Human Functional Genomics Initiative ( https://www.ukri.org/news/28-5m-in-funding-for-human-functional-genomics-initiative/ )
As Senior Quantitative Genecist at the Baillie Lab, you will play a pivotal role in leading, developing, and running the bioinformatic pipelines of work across all projects. This is pro-active role, where you will have primary responsibility for maintaining current analyses and identifying new approaches to better understand critical illness.
This role will require the post holder to develop strong relationships with colleagues within and beyond the interdisciplinary team while pursuing new collaborations within the Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub and wider university.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. This post will be for 24 months.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- Highly experienced postdoctoral experience in bio-informatics or high-dimensional data analyses in the field of health science.
- Proven track record of high impact publications.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary of £49,250 and £60,321 per annum.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa . Please note if the role is offered on a part-time basis, it may result in sponsorship being dependant on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant or the role no longer meeting the Home Office’s criteria for sponsorship.
Key dates to note
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR; Director, Professor David Dockrell) leverages peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research programmes and focussed collaboration, to characterise mechanisms of acute and chronic inflammation. CIR aims to characterise what promotes health at the molecular level in order to prevent the harmful consequences of inflammation in clinical medicine. Effort is targeted at: inhibiting the initiation of inflammation by blocking specific molecular triggers and by modulating cellular and tissue responses resulting in organ dysfunction; finding new approaches to modulate established inflammatory responses to limit tissue injury; and promoting safe resolution of inflammation to restore healthy structure and function of tissue.
The CIR has a broad interest in inflammatory disease in a range of tissues including in the lungs, kidney, liver, pancreas, bowel, bone, joints, skin, heart and brain. There is in-depth analysis of stimuli that induce or modify inflammation with detailed programmes considering the role of sex, development, auto-immunity, infection and other environmental influences. Importantly, the principles derived will have ready application to inflammatory and reparatory responses in virtually all physiological and pathological settings, including cancer and infection (not least COVID-19). Translation is aided by a commitment to novel diagnostic and imaging modalities and our proximity to patient groups and healthy volunteers in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
Our research aims align closely with the vision of IRR and other centres within IRR, to promote human health through in-depth understanding of tissue regeneration and repair, while developing a multi-pronged translational programme to effect therapeutic innovation in this area. IRR is located on the BioQuarter Campus, Edinburgh.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/inflammation-research