Research Associate in MR Physics
Job id: 097245
Salary: £44,105 - £45,247 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Biomedical Engineering.
Location: St Thomas’ Campus
Category: Research.
About us
Located in the heart of London, King’s is the hub of a global network of strong academic connections and collaboration, with prestigious international partnerships within and across disciplines – scientific and medical, social and creative. King’s is investing in the highest calibre of talent to drive the university forward to achieve its greatest potential. The very best from the United Kingdom and across the globe are invited to join King’s. We are looking for a strong commitment to teaching and research, to push the boundaries of knowledge, influence the future and create a lasting impact.
The successful applicant will be closely supervised by Dr Alkystis Phinikaridou and co-supervised by Prof René Botnar and Prof. Claudia Prieto at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) and will be part of a vibrant research team of PhD students and postdocs.
About the role
This exciting postdoctoral position is funded by a British Heart Foundation Project grant entitled “Molecular MRI signatures of fibrosis to detect heart failure and response to treatment”. The research aims to answer the clinically important question whether molecular MR imaging can provide readouts for precision imaging of cardiac fibrosis to detect adverse cardiac remodelling, hearts at risk of failing and monitor therapeutic response.
The candidate will work in an interdisciplinary team consisting of physicists, imaging biologists, chemists, and clinicians to develop novel MR imaging techniques for the non-invasive detection of cardiac fibrosis using new molecular imaging probes in preclinical models of heart failure. The research team is located at St Thomas´ Hospital in the Research Department of Cardiovascular Imaging which has access to 10 state-of-the-art clinical research scanners with field strengths varying from 0.55T, 1.5T, 3T to 7T.
The specific aims of the post will be to:
To devise and validate a heartrate-independent, motion-resilient and fast 3D free-running cardiac T1 mapping sequence with dictionary matching at a 3T clinical suitable for preclinical imaging.
To closely collaborate with an imaging biologist to test and validate the newly developed protocol for accurate molecular imaging of cardiac fibrosis in rodent models of heart failure.
This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 1.5 years.
Contact details: Dr Alkystis Phinikaridou:
[email protected]Closing date: 14 November 2024.
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