Job date: 2015-09-02
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Company : University of Sheffield Country : Role : Student
Job Reference Number: UOS011484
Job Title: Research Associate in vitro Mechanobiology (2 Posts)
Contract Type: Fixed-term until 30 September 2016
Working Pattern: Full time
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Department: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Salary: Grade 7: £29,552 to £37,394 per annum
Closing Date: 11th September 2015
Summary:
Mechanical Engineering has been a major discipline in the University since its foundation in 1905. The Research Excellence Framework (REF, December 2014) placed the Department within the Top 5 for Mechanical Engineering in the UK, and in the last Teaching Quality Assessment was rated as “Excellent”. The Department currently has 61 members of academic staff who support the learning and development of an ever-growing undergraduate and postgraduate student body. The Department is located in the Sir Frederick Mappin Building on the St George’s site, adjacent to the other Engineering departments. For more information on the Department please visit our web site www.shef.ac.uk/mecheng.
The Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine is an initiative between the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheffield and the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. Insigneo intends to realise the scientific ambition behind the Virtual Physiological Human, producing a transformational impact on healthcare. Insigneo performs cutting edge research in areas of fundamental and applied biomedical modelling, imaging and informatics. In particular, over next five years it will focus on the Digital Patient, in Silico Clinical Trials, and Personal Health Forecasting. We intend to achieve transformational impact on healthcare through multidisciplinary collaboration in strategic areas, which initially will include personalised treatments and independent, active and healthy ageing. Our team of academics has an international and interdisciplinary profile and a strong commitment to clinical and industrial translation with impact in future healthcare.
For more information on Insigneo please see our web pages: www.insigneo.org.
This is an excellent research opportunity within the Integrated Musculoskeletal Biomechanics (IMSB) Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield (www.mechanobiology.co.uk). The research forms part of a project aimed at developing in silico simulations for bone regenerative medicine. The Research Associates will carry out novel in vitro cell culture experiments combining mechanical loading induced by bioreactors with controlled biomaterial architecture.
The post is full time and available until 30 September 2016. The post-holders will report to Professor Damien Lacroix, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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