The MRC Centre for Transplantation and the Biostatistics department of King’s College London wish to appoint a Post-doctoral Statistician to work on the FP7 funded BIO-DrIM consortium in biomarker-based trials.

The BIO-DrIM (BIOmarker-Driven personalized IMmunosuppression) is an EU FP7 funded project with the object of implementing biomarker-driven strategies for personalizing immunosuppression.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual with good communication skills, and experience with statistical analysis in clinical and/or genetics research. Translational research for personalised medicine is at the forefront of King’s medical research programme, and the results of the BIO-DrIM consortium have the potential of influencing clinical practice, as well as inspiring future research of biomarker discovery. The appointee will have the opportunity to gain experience as trial statistician, as well as expertise in bioinformatics analysis of transcriptomics data.

The post will be jointly managed by Dr Maria Hernandez-Fuentes and Dr Irene Rebollo-Mesa.

Dr Maria Hernandez-Fuentes, the scientific lead of BIO-DrIM at King’s College London, leads a large programme of research on biomarkers for the prediction of transplantation outcomes, including transplant rejection and transplantation tolerance.

Dr Irene Rebollo-Mesa, BIO-DrIM’s senior statistician, has extensive experience in the statistical analysis of biomarker data for prediction of transplantation outcomes, and is now based at the King’s Clinical trials Unit, part of KCL’s Biostatistics Department.

The post will be based both at Guy’s Campus, for interaction with the MRC Centre for Transplantation team, where Dr Maria Hernandez-Fuentes is based; and at Denmark Hill Campus, to benefit from the interaction with the biostatistics department, and the King’s Clinical Trials Unit, where Dr Irene Rebollo is based.