Research Assistant

at  Kings College London

Job id: 104446. Salary: £38,232 per annum including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 17 January 2025. Closing date: 26 January 2025.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: St John’s Institute of Dermatology.
Contact details: Dr Satveer Mahil. satveer.mahil@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Guy’s Campus. Category: Research.
About Us
The Skin Therapy Research Unit sits within St John’s Institute of Dermatology, a world leading skin research centre. The Unit provides a range of services and facilities to support research aimed at improving outcomes in people with skin disease. Work extends from genetic discovery through to a comprehensive portfolio of clinical trials (phase II onwards) and biomarker-enabled precision medicine.
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to support the delivery of clinical research activities at the Skin Therapy Research Unit. The post holder will join a large interdisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists and study management personnel to deliver our internationally leading precision medicine inflammatory skin disease research programme. The post holder will be responsible for refining, expanding the scope and validating a model informed precision dosing (MIPD) dashboard across multiple biologic agents in psoriasis, building on our current feasibility trial of precision dosing of biologics in psoriasis remission. They will benefit from a close collaboration with pharmacometrics experts at University College London.
Candidates should have a firm grounding and interest in PK/PD modelling and clinical applications of therapeutic drug monitoring. They should be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication and IT skills, experience of co-ordinating collaborative research, and the ability to work independently.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an fixed term contract for 18 months.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Good first degree and masters in a relevant subject
• Basic coding skills in R
• Excellent teamwork
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and IT (email, spreadsheets, word processing and databases) skills
• Ability to work without direct supervision; to manage own workload through and display good organisational ability
• Experience of industry/capital/research liaising
• Proven commitment to ongoing skill development

Desirable criteria

• Advanced coding skills in R/Python
• Experience of report/paper writing

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Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews are due to be held end of January/early February.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK

Please refer the Job description for details