Science jobs from MRC Prion Unit: job description
Phd Studentship
Prion Unit, London
Salary £15,510 per annum
PhD Studentship offered by The MRC Prion Unit, a leading research centre at University College London Institute of Neurology. The Unit studies prion, dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases and has highly multidisciplinary research programmes from basic molecular and cellular biology through to clinical therapeutics based. The Unit is directed by Professor John Collinge; the project supervisor is Professor Parmjit Jat.
We wish to appoint a highly-motivated and enthusiastic student who possesses, or is expected to gain, a First or Upper Second Class Honours degree in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biology or a related discipline. The aim of this project is to delineate the regions of the PrP molecule required for efficient propagation of mouse prions.
Benefits include 30 days annual leave.
Applications for this role should be made online at http://jobs.mrc.ac.uk. If you do not have internet access or experience technical difficulties please call 01793 301156 quoting the reference number PRI09/069. For on line applications please attach a CV and covering letter.
Closing date for applications: 5th March 2009
“The Medical Research Council is an Equal Opportunities Employer”
Final appointment will be subject to pre-employment screening
