We believe Sussex is the best place in the world to do cancer research. All cancer researchers across Sussex benefit from the support of the Sussex Cancer Research Centre including:
World-leading, multi-disciplinary, collaborators on your doorstep.
The full bench to bedside pipeline for finding drug targets, developing new treatments, and trialing new approaches in patients.
Access to pump-priming funds, and PhD studentships offered by the Sussex Cancer Research Centre and our institutions.
Local charity support from the Sussex Cancer Fund, who have made it a funding priority to support future cancer researcher leaders to establish their careers and thrive in Sussex.
An active community including patients, carers, and families, eager to engage with your research.
A bespoke mentor to help you navigate the research landscape and achieve your career ambitions.
Well-establish routes to patient benefit including substantial support for commercialising your research.
Vacancies
Vacancies
Clinical Associate Professor/Professor of Oncology
Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is seeking to appoint a Clinical Associate Professor or Professor of Oncology, depending on career stage, with an honorary consultant contract at University Hospitals Sussex. The role holder will have a track record in clinical trials and provide clinical leadership as Clinical Director for the Brighton and Sussex Clinical Trials Unit. Partnership working will be important including with the Sussex Cancer Centre which sits within University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (Cancer care), and the Health and Care Research Partnership.
Research Fellow in Systems Biology
As a Research Fellow in Laboratory and Computational Systems Biology Cancer Research you will lead the delivery of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research project that combines computational systems biology and laboratory science to better treat cancers. You will work independently to lead a project funded by Leukaemia UK, produce high quality academic publications, and share your work nationally and internationally at conferences.
You will work in a growing blood cancer research team at BSMS and be part of Sussex Blood Cancer Research alongside clinical academic colleagues and laboratory researchers at BSMS and the University of Sussex. More broadly you will be embedded in the Sussex Cancer Research Centre, which unites all cancer researchers across Sussex. Daily you will interact with laboratory scientists, computational biologists, and clinical academic colleagues, running computer simulations and testing predictions in the lab.
Research Fellow in Biochemistry & Biomedicine
Dr Rhys Morgan’s research group is seeking to appoint a highly talented and motivated Research Fellow to lead a 3-year Cancer Research UK funded project titled ‘Detecting and targeting translation inhibitor sensitive RUNX1 mutations in chronic myeloid leukaemia’. You will work independently to produce high quality experimental data in the laboratories of the Biochemistry & Biomedicine department, which will be used to write scientific publications, obtain further research funding, be presented at internal seminars, and submitted to national/international conferences.
You will be required to supervise project students and contribute to wider school missions around teaching, public engagement and research culture.
You will benefit from the supervision and mentorship of a new scientific/clinical partnership between Dr Morgan (School of Life Sciences) and Dr David Palmer (University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust) and be part of the wider Sussex Blood Cancer Research network with colleagues in Brighton & Sussex Medical School.
You will benefit from interactions with the Sussex RNA Biology Centre and be embedded within the Sussex Cancer Research Centre, which unites all cancer researchers across Sussex.
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