Tommys Clinical Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK

Added via www.clinicalacademicjobs.org. Based in the University of Edinburgh MRC Centre for Reproductive Health at Little France and clinical sites, a position exists for a full-time clinical research fellow. The post will be of three years duration and will involve work on obesity and stress hormones in pregnancy. The project is funded by Tommy’s. The clinical research fellow will investigate the factors that regulate maternal/placental glucocorticoid metabolism and action and will investigate the role of glucocorticoids in the pathogenesis of obese-pregnancy related disorders including delayed labour and stillbirth. Recruitment to clinical studies will be assisted by a research midwife and there will be access to clinical tissue from the Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue Biobank. The clinical research fellow will be primarily responsible for conducting clinical investigational studies within the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and for carrying out mechanistic laboratory studies.

It is anticipated that the successful applicant will register for a PhD. This post would ideally suit an “academic track” clinician from obstetrics and gynaecology or diabetes/endocrinology.

Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Rebecca Reynolds ([email protected]). The deadline for applications is 11 February 2013. Further information is available at the link below.

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