Research Fellow

at  University College London

ABOUT US

UCL is one of the top Universities in the world with superb facilities for biomedical sciences and its translation to human disease. The successful candidate will join Professor Ehrenstein’s group which focusses on translational research in autoimmune rheumatic disease spanning disease based mechanistic science to early phase clinical trials. Close links to UCLH provides an excellent interface between science and medicine. The work will be carried out in the Division of Medicine in the Rayne Building (Bloomsbury Campus), which has outstanding flow-cytometry infrastructure and technical support.

This project is in collaboration with Dr Muhammad Shipa (Division of Medicine, UCL) and Dr Louisa James at QMUL, and is funded by VersusArthritis. The research objective is to apply molecular and cellular techniques to understand the role of B cells and identify biomarkers of response to B cell targeted therapy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The research will be laying the foundation for a biomarker driven clinical trial and provide mechanistic understanding of response to B cell targeted therapy. The post is available for 1 year. For all informal enquiries please contact Professor Mike Ehrenstein on m.ehrenstein@ucl.ac.uk.