ABOUT US

The mission of the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.

ABOUT YOU

The successful candidate will have undergraduate degree/MSc in a relevant field. High quality academic research with good working knowledge of methods mentioned in Job Description. Experience of electrophysiology methods such as patch clamping or multi-electrode arrays. Experience of sterile cell culture methods, particularly induced pluripotent stem cell culture is desirable. Please check person specification of further information.

This is a 5 month post to complete functional assays in an ERI-UK funded project grant. The successful candidate will acquire and/or consolidate skills in molecular biology, cell culture and electrophysiology assays. Please note this post is part-time 18.25 hrs per week (0.5 FTE) for a month then full-time 36.5 hours per week.