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 Bioinformatics
The Sussex Bioinformatics lab is seeking a skilled Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioinformatics to join our team.
You will play a central role in developing the CRUK Data Hub – an online platform making cancer datasets easier to find, access, and reuse in line with FAIR Data principles, working with data scientists at Cancer Research UK and the HDR-UK Health Data Gateway team. As well as web-development, you will work with CRUK-funded, cancer data owners to ensure high-quality metadata is input into the database, you will create guidance and training materials, and support web design to optimise researcher experience.
Alongside this, you will contribute to the Pearl AI: DependANT project, an AI-powered platform enabling oncologists to use tumour DNA/RNA sequencing data to identify targeted therapies and clinical trials. Your responsibilities will include: processing FASTQ and BAM/CRAM files, and producing variant call files, generating input data for AI tools and implementing secure bioinformatics workflows.
Research Technician for Blood Cancer UK-funded project in Protein Biochemistry
You will join a Blood Cancer UK-funded project, to further understand mechanisms underlying the activation of cancer signalling pathways by tyrosine fusion kinases in Leukaemia, and their regulation by the HSP90 molecular chaperone system.
As a research assistant, you will carry out large-scale recombinant protein production to support the structural biology (X-ray crystallography and cryoEM) aspects of this project and perform subsequent biochemical and biophysical assays to probe assembly and activity of fusion kinases and their interactions with the molecular chaperone system, with the aim of probing new allosteric approaches to inhibit fusion kinase function.
Advertise your vacancy here: contact us