Paediatric Clinical Research Fellow - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Paediatric Clinical Research Fellow - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

About Us

This role sits within the Research Department of Early Life Imaging, King’s College London and will liaise with the Neonatal and Paediatric Neurology teams at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. The department is part of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences which is at the cutting-edge of research and teaching, dedicated to the development, clinical translation, and clinical application of medical imaging and computational modelling technologies. Our objective is to facilitate research and teaching guided by clinical questions and aimed at novelty, understanding of physiology and pathophysiology, as well as the development of new diagnostic tools and therapies. Placed uniquely within St Thomas’ Hospital, the School offers exciting opportunities to perform truly translational research, extending from the basic science level right through to the clinic.

The role liaises with the Neonatal Unit at Guy’s & St Thomas’, now the largest in the South Thames Region and one of the largest in the United Kingdom having completed in the recent years an expansion project, with 20 Intensive Care, 12 High Dependency and 20 Special Care beds. There are over 7,000 births per year on-site, the majority of which are from a high risk, inner city local population. There is an academic Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine Department. A substantial number of antenatal referrals and in-utero transfers occur due to a wide range of Maternal Medicine tertiary services, including Diabetes, Lupus, Cardiology and Renal Medicine. Fetal Medicine and Fetal Cardiology services also account for many of these.

There is a close working relationship with subspecialties including the departments of Fetal and Paediatric Cardiology, Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Paediatric General Surgery, Paediatric Anaesthesia, Paediatric Neurology, Paediatric Nephrology & Urology, Paediatric Metabolic Medicine, Paediatric ENT, Plastic Surgery (including the Regional Cleft Lip & Palate Service), Orthopaedic Surgery and Genetics.

About The Role

The candidate will support and enable MR imaging studies of children and infants across the School’s scanning facilities based at St Thomas’s Hospital.

These include (but are not limited to): the UK’s only ultra-high field (7 Tesla) MR imaging programme which includes high resolution functional imaging studies; simultaneous EEG-fMRI studies of infant learning; the development of novel MR imaging methods on a portable ultra-low field Hyperfine MRI scanner as part of the Gates Foundation UNITY project; and the open-science Wellcome funded developing Children’s Connectome Project which will study >500 children aged 6-12 years of age who were first studied as part of the developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP).

This is a part-time post (20 Hours per week). You will be offered a fixed term contract for 6 months in the first instance.