Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Fixed term (until 30^th April 2027)

Full time (35 hours per week)

We are looking for a post-doctoral scientist to work on a cross European gene therapy programme.

The Opportunity:

To work on a funded European Innovation Council grant on development of a novel human adenovirus for gene therapy. The goal of the project across a total of 6 European partners (academia and industry) is to engineer the genome of the virus to disarm potentially harmful sequences and rebuilt with specific features to target the brain or heart for application to gene therapy.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• PhD (or submitted) in related topic top cardiovascular disease or virology
• Innovative
• Technically competent at the laboratory bench
• Team player
• Excellent communicator