Job Opportunity in Newcastle

An exciting opportunity for training in translational medicine will be available soon in the Newcastle Muscle Centre. Via an award scheme funded by the Wellcome Trust, we are able to offer a four year training programme including a year of taught courses around the many issues of drug development and trial design, followed by a three year PhD project.

Industry and academic leads deliver the courses and the PhD programmes also have industry components, providing a broad education in the field of drug development and translational medicine.

The successful applicant will be based in the Newcastle muscle team, and will be able to take part in clinical, research and TREAT-NMD activities within the centre. This is an attractive full-time salaried position on a Clinical Research Associate salary scale (currently £27,523 - £46,426, although more senior candidates could be appointed to a higher scale). The scheme is competitive, and applicants will need to be eligible for General Medical Council registration in the UK as well as being able to fulfil residency requirements. It is likely that successful applicants will be on or have just finished a training pathway in Neurology, Paediatric Neurology, Genetics or other specialties relevant to neuromuscular diseases.

Anyone thinking of applying should contact Kate Bushby, Volker Straub or Hanns Lochmüller.

Further details can be found on the Newcastle University website here, and a leaflet in PDF format can be found here.