This Associate Professor/Honorary Consultant post arises due to the retirement of the Professor/Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology. It is based within a multi-disciplinary team of scientists and clinicians in the Leicester Cancer Research Centre (Department of Genetics and Genome Biology) & the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, which has a national and international reputation in translational and clinical cancer research.
As a high calibre clinician/scientist, possessing full GMC registration and a licence to practice you will have or be developing a research profile of national/international standing and be expected to become a significant research income generator. You will enhance impact activity and develop a programme of high-quality research, within the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Cancer Theme to develop and enhance cross-cutting research between Cancer and other themes including the Data Innovation and Lifestyle themes. In addition, you will supervise a team of clinical and non‑clinical postgraduate and undergraduate researchers and contribute to teaching delivery within the College.
In addition to five academic programmed activities, you will also deliver five programmed activities delivering to the Consultant clinical medical oncology service at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.