Non-Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
Department NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health/Nucleus South 
London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's 
College London.   

Salary This is a fixed-time appointment with a salary at the appropriate point 
for qualifications and experience on the Academic scale (range £39,974 pa to 
£54,409 pa inclusive of London Allowance).   
Reference 09/A12  
Category Academic and related  
Closes on Thu, 16 April 2009  
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/vacancies/default.aspx?scope=external&id=1118


Details
Applications are invited for the post of Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer in 
Bioinformatics to join the NIHR Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for 
Mental Health (BRC-MH). The BRC-MH, funded by the National Institute for 
Health Research, undertakes translational research across 7 Disorder themes 
and 3 Cross-cutting themes. The BRC-MH recently secured a £3m 
infrastructure grant from Trustees of the South London and Maudsley NHS 
Foundation Trust and the Guys and St Thomas’ Trust (GSTT) Charity for 
a ‘Nucleus’ of IT developments, bioinformatics and biostatistics to support a 
variety of strategically important BRC-MH research initiatives. The successful 
candidate will be expected to lead bioinformatics research of an international 
standard complementary to the overall research strategy of the BRC-MH. This 
strategy includes the use of expression profiling, genomics, proteomics and 
other approaches to identify biomarkers of progression, disease and treatment 
response and in further understanding mental illness. The successful candidate 
will have a relevant PhD and a proven track record of bioinformatics research. 
S/he will conduct, supervise and otherwise contribute to analyses of genetics, 
genomics, transcriptomics and proteomic data alongside data from 
neuroimaging, laboratory and clinical areas for themes from across the BRC-
MH. S/He will therefore need to be familiar with relevant database languages 
and statistical programmes; including MYSQL, PERL and R. 

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Simon Lovestone (Tel: +(0)
207848-0239/0550; Email: [log in to unmask]). Where applicants are 
short listed for interview, references will normally be taken up prior to 
interview. Applicants who do not wish any referees to be so contacted should 
make this explicitly clear on their application. We are unfortunately unable to 
reply to those applicants who have not been short listed and invited for 
interview. However, we would like to thank all candidates for their applications 
and for their interest in working for the BRC-MH at the South London and 
Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College 
London. 

Full details: 
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/vacancies/default.aspx?scope=external&id=1118