The School of Medicine is recruiting a Research Technician to work on a clinical trial involved in bladder cancer surveillance and which is based around urine cytology. This opportunity has arisen in response to a successful research grant being awarded by Innovate UK to develop and validate a non-invasive clinical test for bladder cancer surveillance. The research project will develop a non-invasive assay to identify if a bladder cancer patient remains cancer free during their surveillance. The test is designed so that a patient with a negative result in the test may forgo an invasive cystoscopy, which is current clinical practice. The work involved in this role is to develop the laboratory aspect of the clinical test and will involve the purification of cells from patient urine, automated biomarker labelling of the sample and automated quantification through image analysis. The role will involve initial optimisation of laboratory techniques such as cell plating, immuno-labelling and image analysis. You will be involved in the running and managing of the laboratory aspect of the clinical trial, with experience in working in a hospital and academic environment, adhering to strict GCP and GLP guidelines and who has skills in project and laboratory management. You must have experience in clinical laboratory techniques such as cell preparation, staining, immuno-labelling, microscopy, digital pathology and image analysis.  Also required will be experience in maintaining the resource of the lab, training other members of the team and regular reporting to both clinical, academic and industry partners.

This post will be for 18 months. 

The University of St Andrews is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all, which is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender and Race Equality Charters and being awarded the Athena SWAN award for women in science, HR Excellence in Research Award and the LGBT Charter;  http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.

Please quote ref: TG1095JC

Closing Date: 10 December 2015

Further Particulars: TG1095JC FPs.pdf

School of Medicine
Salary - £31,656 - £37,768 pa
Start - As soon as possible
Fixed Term - 18 months