About this role
Job reference: BMH-030708 Salary: £37,694 - £41,064 per annum depending on experience Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health Location: Oxford Road Employment type: Fixed Term Division/Team: Division of Evolution, Infection & Genomics Hours Per Week: Full time (1 FTE) Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/01/2026 Contract Duration: Fixed term for 24 months School/Directorate: School of Biological Sciences
The Hentges laboratory within the School of Biological Sciences wish to appoint a laboratory-based Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the “Impact of chaperone complex variants on congenital heart disease”.
During this position, the post-holder will undertake a range of activities including: Modelling chaperone complex protein variants in human cell lines and zebrafish embryos, using affinity-coupled mass-spectrometry to determine the impact of chaperone protein variants on protein interactions, characterizing cardiac development in zebrafish expressing chaperone protein variants, and characterizing cilia formation and function in zebrafish expressing chaperone protein variants.
What you will get in return:
Fantastic market leading Pension scheme Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays Additional paid closure over the Christmas period Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
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Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Kathryn Hentges
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.