Clinical Research Fellow (Rare Disease Genomics, ICGNMD-2) Full-time NEW

Clinical Research Fellow (Rare Disease Genomics, ICGNMD-2)

You will undertake a research project focused on identifying the causes of inherited neuromuscular diseases in a large and diverse research cohort. In addition to your research project, you will attend regular clinical meetings to discuss clinical and genetic results. You will also contribute to clinics where you will review patients as part of their routine clinic visit and consent them for research. This activity may include phenotyping genetically complex patients, especially those without a molecular diagnosis. You will also have opportunity to support other natural history and treatment research studies, in addition to your primary research project.

There will be the possibility of enrolling for a PhD project, and you may be able to apply your research findings to a PhD thesis, to underpin a future clinical academic career. The Institute of Neurology has a strong track record in supervising trainees through PhD and other postgraduate studies, and you will be supported to develop research interests and encouraged to contribute to high-impact publications.

An honorary contract will be sought from UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, for which a DBS check will be required.

The post is available immediately and is funded by a UK Medical Research Council award for one year in the first instance.