Research Technician

Job description
Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Research Technician to join Prof Daniel Davis’s lab in Imperial College London, South Kensington.

The research program involves the use of super-resolution microscopy to compare the organisation of activating, co-stimulatory and inhibitory receptors with an aim to establish how changes in cell surface organisation impacts thresholds at which immune responses are switched on or off which may then lead to novel approaches in treating cancer/auto-immune diseases.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-equipped multidisciplinary team studying immune cell biology in health and disease. The role will be to provide technical support for a range of research activity including maintaining smooth running of the lab including ordering reagents, liaising with collaborators and partners, isolating specific types of immune cells from peripheral blood samples, performing experiments in immune cell biology, running/troubleshooting experiments, the maintenance, the use and teaching of research associated equipment and other associated duties commensurate with the grade. Some experience in human immune cell biology research is strongly preferred. 

Duties and responsibilities

You will be working as part of a team of postdocs and students. The overarching project involves using microscopy to image signal transduction and integration from activating and inhibitory receptors on human immune cells. This will be compared in settings of health and disease. The post involves a high degree of teamwork and interdisciplinary research as well as daily interactions with other members of the lab, other allied scientists within Imperial College and elsewhere, as appropriate.

Essential requirements

Experience with human immune cell biology (and/or high-level microscopy) is strongly desired. You must have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as basic knowledge of immunology, cell biology or microscopy. You must also be able to develop and apply new concepts, work with minimal supervision and have a creative approach to problem-solving. The ideal candidate will have the passion and drive to tackle and overcome scientific problems and have superb organisational skills.

Further information

This position is full-time and fixed term until 31 October 2025 in the first instance, via a new program grant funded by the Medical Research Council (UK).

For informal enquiries please contact Professor Daniel Davis (via d.davis@imperial.ac.uk )

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA),which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research / 

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