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Clinical Research Fellow in Respiratory Medicine ( 2 x )
£31,211 - £46,246

Applications are invited from medical graduates to become key members of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium (www.cfgenetherapy.org.uk), an enthusiastic and dynamic team of clinicians and scientists developing gene therapy for cystic fibrosis, funded by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. You will have an important role in the running of the "run-in" clinical study and the subsequent CF clinical gene therapy trial, which has a major component based in Edinburgh. Your research will contribute to our programme of evaluating new methods of testing the efficacy and safety of gene therapy in cystic fibrosis patients, and will benefit from the strong local scientific expertise and infrastructure in this area. The post is based primarily in the Scottish Adult Cystic Fibrosis Service and the adjacent Molecular Medicine Centre, (School of Clinical and Molecular Medicine) at the Western General Hospital.
These exciting posts will provide the opportunity for a further degree as well as experience in research techniques at the forefront of respiratory medicine. The posts are available from May and July 2010 for two years in the first instance.

Informal enquiries to Dr JA Innes (a.innes@ed.ac.uk) or Professor AP Greening (a.greening@ed.ac.uk)
Ref: 3012853.  Closing date: 9 June 2010.

For further particulars and an application pack visit our website (http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/) or telephone the recruitment line on 0131 650 2511.
 

The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme of NIHR has put out a call for commissioned Evidence Synthesis (full proposals) on supported self management for patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. All submissions must reach the NETSCC, HTA offices before 1pm on Wednesday 30 June 2010. Proposals will be considered by the HTA Commissioning Board in September 2010. The commissioning briefs, application form and associated guidance notes are available on the HTA programme website at www.hta.ac.uk/funding/standardcalls.