Position Details
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
Grade: 7
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to July 2029
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Background
We are looking for a candidate who has skill sets to deliver the project on check point induced liver injury. Candidate should have regulatory T cell (Treg) biology, immune regulation, and tumour immunology, with experience in in vivo models and high-dimensional immune phenotyping.
Role Summary
- Work within the team to deliver a dedicated project as well as team projects
- Contribute to writing grant bids and generating funding
- Operate within the area of immunology, check point inhibitors, oncology
- Analyse and interpret research findings and results as a team player
- Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
Main Duties
The responsibilities may include some, but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
- Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research
- Contribute to writing bids for research funding
- Analyse and interpret data
- Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
- Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
- Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
- Contribute to developing new models, techniques, and methods
- Undertake management/administration arising from research
- Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
- Contribute to enterprise, business development, and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
- Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews
- Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters
- Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research
- Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines
- Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
Person Specification
- First degree in area of regulatory T cells, cancer immunology, and check point inhibitors
- Recently completed and written up PhD
- Ambitious, hardworking and team player
- Fluent in Spectral flow analysis and samples processing up to 20 colours
- Skills in Multi-colour Immunofluorescence
- High level analytical capability
- Strong knowledge in Oncology and lymph node biology
- Strong background on Treg biology
- Tissue immunology experience
- Basic knowledge on R
- Extensive experience with mice work
- Basic experience with check point inhibitors PDL1
- Fluent in function, migration, and spatial organisation of Tregs and CD4 ⁺ T cell subsets within the tumour microenvironment using in vivo experimental models
- GCP training
- Tissue-infiltrating lymphocytes, including regulatory T cells biology
- Outreach activity, leadership with NIHR
- Home Office Personal Licence holder
- for in vivo animal research including in vivo tumour models and experimental design
- Fluorescence and confocal microscopy (Zeiss systems) Tissue preparation and immunofluorescence staining Quantitative image analysis using ImageJ and Qu Path
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly within the team and with outside collaborators
- Fluency in murine models, techniques, or methods
- Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes with team leads
- Contribute to the planning and organising of team research programme and/or specific research project
- Co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly
Further particulars can be found here
Informal enquiries to Lisa Powell, email: l.h.powell@bham.ac.uk
Use of AI in applications: We want to understand your genuine interest in the role and for the written elements of your application to accurately reflect your own communication style. Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience. Such applications will unlikely be progressed to interview.
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