Job Title: Post-doctoral Training Fellow – X-ray Crystallography or Biochemistry/Enzymology 

Closing Date of vacancy: 19 August 2013

Division: Structural Biology

Team: Wigley Group

Type of Contract: Fixed Term 

Length of Contract: 3 years

Salary Range: £28,425 to £39,458 p.a. inclusive 

Work Location: London 

Hours per week: 35

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) is one of the world’s most influential cancer research institutes. Our mission is to make the discoveries that defeat cancer. We have a long and distinguished history of research with a major impact on the outcome for cancer patients. Our unique partnership with The Royal MarsdenNHS Foundation Trust (RMH) makes us the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, performing high quality original basic research and translational studies. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Professor Alan Ashworth FRS, we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best minds in the world. The ICR was ranked as the UK’s top academic research centre in the 2008 Higher Education Funding Council Research Assessment Exercise. Based on our publication record, citations and impact we rank among the world’s leading cancer research centres.

Post-doctoral positions in X-ray Crystallography and/or Biochemistry/Enzymology We are seeking to appoint a post-doctoral fellows in Professor Dale Wigley ‘s group on a programme to study complexes involved in DNA damage repair and cancer funded by Cancer Research UK. Current projects include the double-strand break repair protein complexes in humans and bacteria. The successful applicants, who will be experienced in either X-ray crystallography or in the biochemistry of protein:nucleic acid complexes or enzymology, will join a multi-disciplinary team of international scientists with varied expertise working on DNA repair processes from biochemistry and enzymology to structural studies including electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography.

Appointments will be for 3 years initially within the scale £28,425 to £39,458 p.a. inclusive depending on postdoctoral experience.