MRC RADIATION AND GENOME STABILITY   UNIT                  
(RAGSU)

 Senior Scientist/Programme Leader

We are seeking an outstanding scientist for this tenured career 
position to build and lead a new research team within RAGSU, with 
core MRC support.  

Applicants will be considered in any specialization within the 
overall remit of RAGSU, though molecular/cellular research with an 
emphasis on biochemistry and related radiation studies or other   
aspects of radiation biology, are strategically important to the 
Unit's future.  

The MRC has recently reviewed and reaffirmed the strategic 
importance of radiation biology within Council's portfolio of DNA 
damage, repair, stability and response.  It agreed that a search 
should commence in 2001 for a successor to the present Director 
of RAGSU  for continuation of the Unit at Harwell beyond his 
retirement in 2003.  The individual appointed to the vacant 
programme-leader post would be free to apply for the Directorship, 
though the two posts are not  linked. 


RAGSU focuses on fundamental research into the relationship of 
genome stability to disease, using human, rodent and yeast 
systems.  It comprises about 40 scientific staff currently within 5 
groups working on radiation biophysics, DNA damage and 
recognition, DNA repair and mutagenesis, the cell cycle, induced   
instability and leukaemogenesis.  

RAGSU shares a common infrastructure with the MRC Mammalian 
Genetics Unit/Mouse Genome Centre at Harwell; there is an active 
joint PhD training programme  with registrations via Oxford and 
other universities.    
Reimbursement of certain relocation expenses will be considered 
as part of the overall package offered; additional incentives may be 
available to overseas applicants.  

Informal enquires may be made to the Director, Professor Dudley  
Goodhead -  [log in to unmask]  Telephone 01235-
834393.   Applicants should apply by full CV including 3 referees.  
Shortlisted  candidates, following a visit  to the Unit, will be invited 
to submit a  summary of research proposals. Interviews  will be 
held in mid-November.  Further information can be found on  our 
web site  at http://www.har.mrc.ac.uk  

Please send applications to Julie Cox, Administrator, Medical 
Research Council, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD from whom 
further  information may also be obtained - [log in to unmask] or 
telephone  01235-834393. 
CLOSING  DATE 7 September 1999. 
The Council  is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  
please reply to [log in to unmask]
Peter O'Neill
MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit
Harwell
Didcot
Oxon, OX11 ORD, UK





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