Salary
Research Fellow, Grade 8a - £42,882 Research Associate, Grade 6/7 - £30,805 - £41,671
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Package
Fixed term for 18 months.
Date posted
04/06/2025
Job reference
T01968
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What we offer you:
- A holiday entitlement of 185 hours (25 days), increasing to 28 and 30 days after 3 and 5 years’ service respectively, plus bank holidays
- Additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period during the Christmas closure
- Special leave to support a range of circumstances
- A variety of provision to support staff with personal development and recognition
- A range of family friendly benefits
- An employee benefits platform which provides discounts with 350+ retailers and access to health and wellbeing resources
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This is a post doctoral position available in Prof. Akram’s laboratory, which is working towards developing a GMP compliant, end to end automated process for integrated protein production.
The job is funded through an Innovate UK grant titled ‘Mastering the Sustainability of Scalable Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing’. This grant is in collaboration with Cambridge based BiologIC Technologies. Selected candidate will be working towards designing novel ligands for AAV capture, doing biolayer interferometry or SPR to get binding kinetics of the ligands with target antigens and growing various cell types in the new integrated system being developed by BiologIC technologies.
It is a great opportunity to shape the field of protein production and AAV based cell and gene therapies. Post doctoral candidate will be working in conjunction with PhD students who have been working on an aligned project.
Please note: We are recruiting for either a Research Associate OR Research Fellow for this post. Please specify on your application which job role you are applying for.
Research Associate, Grade 6/7, £30,805 - £41,671
Research Fellow, Grade 8a, £42,882
Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post may qualify for University sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.
If you are shortlisted, your interview will take place via Microsoft Teams (international applicants) in person (local to the UK). Please note that the University may ask you to participate in a number of selection activities as part of the recruitment process for this vacancy.
Please note that we are advertising this vacancy on other websites but we are not using those third parties to collate applications for us. If you are viewing this advert on a third party website please ensure you apply directly to Teesside University
This is a post doctoral position available in Prof. Akram’s laboratory, which is working towards developing a GMP compliant, end to end automated process for integrated protein production.
The job is funded through an Innovate UK grant titled ‘Mastering the Sustainability of Scalable Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing’. This grant is in collaboration with Cambridge based BiologIC Technologies. Selected candidate will be working towards designing novel ligands for AAV capture, doing biolayer interferometry or SPR to get binding kinetics of the ligands with target antigens and growing various cell types in the new integrated system being developed by BiologIC technologies.
It is a great opportunity to shape the field of protein production and AAV based cell and gene therapies. Post doctoral candidate will be working in conjunction with PhD students who have been working on an aligned project.
Please note: We are recruiting for either a Research Associate OR Research Fellow for this post. Please specify on your application which job role you are applying for.
Research Associate, Grade 6/7, £30,805 - £41,671
Research Fellow, Grade 8a, £42,882
Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post may qualify for University sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.
If you are shortlisted, your interview will take place via Microsoft Teams (international applicants) in person (local to the UK). Please note that the University may ask you to participate in a number of selection activities as part of the recruitment process for this vacancy.
Please note that we are advertising this vacancy on other websites but we are not using those third parties to collate applications for us. If you are viewing this advert on a third party website please ensure you apply directly to Teesside University
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