英国癌症研究所(ICR)药物化学博士后职位

英国癌症研究所(ICR)药物化学博士后职位

Institute of Cancer Research (ICR)

Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Medicinal Chemistry

Key Information

Salary: Starting Salary £38,607 – £40,902 per annum.

Salary range £38,607 to £45,224 per annum. Starting salary dependent on relevant Postdoctoral experience. Future progression is based on annual performance review. If the candidate has not yet been awarded their PhD, the starting salary will be at £32,844 until the successful completion of their viva.

Duration of Contract: Fixed Term for 2 years

Hours per week: 35 hours per week (Full Time)

Closing Date: Sunday 3rd April 2022

Job Details

Research Leads: Dr Lindsay Evans & Prof. Ian Collins

Summary of Role

A postdoctoral position in synthetic and medicinal chemistry is now available in Medicinal Chemistry Team 2 at The Institute of Cancer Research. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team focussed on exciting drug discovery projects targeting children’s brain tumours in the CRUK Children’s Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence (CRUK CBTCE). The position is located in state-of-the-art laboratories within the newly opened Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery, Sutton, London.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated scientist who will apply their synthetic organic chemistry skills and familiarity with medicinal chemistry approaches to design and prepare new molecules of interest as anticancer agents. The role involves working in a close, multi-disciplinary collaboration with scientists at the ICR and Cambridge University.

Key Requirements

Knowledge, experience and achievement in synthetic chemistry, and familiarity with medicinal chemistry approaches, are essential. The successful applicant will have ample opportunity to develop additional skills in post. This is an ideal opportunity for enthusiastic, committed chemist to make an important contribution to improve therapies for children with brain tumours, while gaining experience and training in drug discovery skills in an institute with a track record of success.

The ICR has a workforce agreement stating that Postdoctoral Training Fellows can only be employed for up to 7 years as PDTF at the ICR, providing total postdoctoral experience (including previous employment at this level elsewhere) does not exceed 10 years.

Department/Directorate Information:

The Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit, within the Division of Cancer Therapeutics, is a multidisciplinary ‘bench to bedside’ centre, comprising around 200 staff dedicated to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Cancer Therapeutics Unit’s exciting goal is to discover high quality drug candidates for validated biological targets and to progress these candidates to clinical trial. All the scientific disciplines are in place to make this possible. Our biologists work alongside world-class chemists and drug metabolism specialists focusing on new molecular targets emerging from human genome and ground breaking cell biology research. This is an exciting and fast moving area of cancer research, and offers the opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary environment using state-of-the-art techniques and equipment.

Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit

Medicinal Chemistry Team 2

We encourage all applicants to access the job pack attached for more detailed information regarding this role. For an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Dr Lindsay Evans or Prof. Ian Collins via Email lindsay.evans@icr.ac.uk or ian.collins@icr.ac.uk.

About The Institute of Cancer Research

Why work for us?

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The Institute of Cancer Research, London, is one of the world’s most influential cancer research institutes, with an outstanding record of achievement dating back more than 100 years. Further information about working at the ICR can be found here.

We look forward to receiving applications from all candidates, wherever in the world they are currently based. We will select those who display the potential to become, or to support, the world leading cancer researchers of the future based on their application and performance at interview. However, we particularly welcome British applicants from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, as they are under-represented within the ICR and nationwide in STEM roles.