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Research Assistant

🏒 University of Edinburgh βœ“ Verified Direct Employer
πŸ“ Edinburgh, Scotland ⚑ Direct Opportunity πŸ•’ 2 days ago
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πŸ“ Edinburgh, Scotland
Employment
πŸ’Ό Full-Time Direct
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Role Overview & Responsibilities

UE06 £30,619 - £35,308 Per Annum

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Institute of Genetics and Cancer / Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine

Full time, 35 hours per week.

Fixed Term - 2 years beginning in August or September 2023

We are looking for a Research Assistant to work within the laboratory of Professor Tim Aitman in the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

The Opportunity:

The successful applicant would work within the Genome Medicine Group, which is using state-of-the-art genome technology to develop new methods for analysis of cell-free DNA for diagnosis and stratification of cancer.

Your skills and attributes for success:

  • You are a highly motivated individual
  • You have good wet lab experience in molecular genetics or molecular biology.
  • You have expertise in next generation sequencing and an interest in the analysis of genome data.
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience of oral presentations and writing scientific documents.
  • A good BSc in Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology, or a closely related field.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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.

Informal enquiries can be made to tim.aitman@ed.ac.uk or hr@igc.ed.ac.uk.

If invited for interview 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) .

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The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

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