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• Arthritis Research Campaign

• The Oliver Bird Rheumatism Programme

• Edinburgh - Research Technician (3 Posts)
  Research Fellow (3 Posts)

Arthritis Research Campaign

PhD studentships 2008

The Arthritis Research Campaign is pleased to announce the award of the following prestigious PhD studentships to enable outstanding young science graduates to embark on a research career in rheumatology. The awards will be tenable for three years from 1st October 2008 with a tax-free stipend currently of £18,754 (in London) and £16,748 (outside London) in the first year, with annual increases thereafter, and will include UK tuition fees.

Applications are invited from candidates who hold or expect to obtain a First or Upper Second Class Honours Degree in a relevant subject.

Applications, including a full CV and naming two academic referees, should be sent directly to the project supervisors named above from whom further details are available.

Further Information

The Oliver Bird Rheumatism Programme

Four-year PhD training programmes in the biosciences

MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh University

Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Collaboration:
Research Technician (3 Posts), Research Fellow (3 Posts): available May 2008.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant interdisciplinary research project aimed at taking cell-based therapies from the “bench to bedside”. The UK Stem Cell Foundation, Medical Research Council, Scottish Enterprise and the Chief Scientist Office are co-funding this important research effort within the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

The project will combine existing and evolving protocols for the directed differentiation of adult stem cells with novel therapeutic carrier/scaffold technologies. A team of scientists will undertake this work, which will include stem cell biology, scaffold manufacture and slow drug release techniques and translation to clinical GMP standards.

The project runs over a period of two years and there are 3 Research Technician positions and 3 Post Doctoral Research Fellow positions available across the sub-groups within the programme of research.

i) In vitro Stem Cell culture
ii) Scaffold Manufacture
iii) In vivo models

Job Type: 2 years Full Time (First Instance)
Research Technicians
Salary Scale: £19,262 - £22,332
Post Doctoral Research Fellows
Salary Scale: £28,290 - £33,779

Further information and application details
Informal enquiries brendon.noble@ed.ac.uk

Updated: 11-may-08

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