Research, Development and Innovation Project Leader (KTP Associate)

As a KTP Associate, you will lead this high-profile and strategically meaningful project, allowing you to apply your academic achievements in an industrial setting. You are expected to have the ability to manage your own workloads to ensure project objectives are met. You will receive practical and formal training, gain marketable skills, broaden your knowledge and expertise within an industrially relevant project, and be supported by both industrial and academic mentors.

You will be supported to continue your personal and professional development throughout the project, acquiring new transferable skills that will enhance your employability; a £4000 budget is available for this training.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s (minimum upper second class) ideally in Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, or Cancer Biology, and PhD, ideally in bioengineering, cell biology or immunology
• Technical skills: laboratory experience in cell biology, cancer biology or immunology
• Strong attention to detail and ability to troubleshoot; ability to follow and optimise protocols
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations in a laboratory environment

Desirable

• Experience of working in an industrial environment, solving problems in health context.
• Target-driven, self-motivated, team player. Good interpersonal skills, eager to learn new skills, flexible, well-organised.
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills

You will be primarily based at the company partner’s premises in Oxford and follow their working hours and annual leave allocation.

Previous KTP Associates are not eligible to apply for this role.

Candidates are requested to upload a CV and covering letter.

Please note applications close at 00:01am of the closing date listed.

To discuss this role informally, please contact:

Professor John Greenman (j.greenman@hull.ac.uk)

T-Cypher Bio Limited, in partnership with the University of Hull is looking to recruit a dynamic and highly driven graduate with relevant biomedical skills who will lead the implementation and development of a customised microfluidics device. The novel technology aims to improve oncology patient outcomes by developing a physiologically relevant system for testing the effectiveness and safety of cancer immunotherapies.