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Engineering Biology in Cambridge

 

Job opportunities will be advertised here with a focus on jobs at the University of Cambridge and in local companies. Opportunities will be included in the IRC newsletter. If you'd like your vacancy listed here please contact the IRC Coordinator on coordinator@engbio.cam.ac.uk.

Job Listing

Sidney Sussex College, 19 June 2023, 12:00-15:00 The Centre for Science and Policy is organising a Professional Development Policy Workshop for early-career researchers and postdocs working in...

A position exists for a talented Research Associate to join a fast-paced and dynamic Wellcome Trust LEAP 1kD project on early brain and cognitive development. This interdisciplinary research programme will develop lab-based and portable scalable tools - including dyadic-EEG, eye-tracking, motion...

This is an exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated computational researcher to join Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian's pioneering research programme to play a key role in advancing the understanding of sequence, structure and chemical modifications in DNA and RNA. Using their expert...

The research team of Professor Laura Machesky is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow with a background and interest in cancer research and cell biology for a multidisciplinary project.

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Bit Bio are looking for a motivated scientist with a strong background in stem cell biology and differentiation principles (embryonic development and/or cellular reprogramming), combined with experience in transcriptomic and/or epigenetic characterization of cell states, to...

This role is different from most roles at Colorifix. It will involve independent research with less reliance on teamwork and more focus on synergistic project areas that would add significant value to the company without playing a direct role in the existing product development pipeline. Special...

We seek to hire a highly motivated Protein Scientist to join the Microbial Engineering Division at Colorifix. The successful candidate will be a pivotal member of a multidisciplinary, creative, and dedicated team focused on the development of heterologous natural pigment pathways in industrially...

We are seeking a creative and motivated Research Assistant/Associate to join Dr Somenath Bakshi's research group in the Department of Engineering. The project involves genetic engineering of control circuits and testing their performance using a cutting-edge microfluidic-microscopic...

Participating in the LEAD programme will provide you with tools and insight to identify and overcome the obstacles for pursuing a career as a research leader in either academia or industry/biotech. The program offers full 3 years fellowships at a top European research centre....

PhD students and postdocs at the University of Cambridge can apply to join a 5 week training programme developed by the...

The Managers of the Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Fund invite applications for four Fellowships to be held in a Department in the School of the Biological Sciences (SBS) at the University of Cambridge from 1 October 2023 or otherwise by negotiation.
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This role provides the opportunity for a skilled and motivated Bioinformatician to develop end-to-end data management capabilities that will significantly impact the delivery of the novel biologics drugs of the future.

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The Biologics Engineering team is responsible for the discovery and optimisation of next generation biological drug candidates for all key therapy areas across AstraZeneca, and for developing in-house biologics discovery platforms and novel drug modalities to address unmet medical needs.

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This role provides the opportunity for a talented and motivated machine learning scientist to develop machine learning capabilities for biologics design that will significantly impact the delivery of the novel biologics drugs of the future.

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This role provides the opportunity for a passionate and motivated Bioinformatician to develop genomic analysis capabilities that will significantly impact the delivery of the novel biologics drugs of the future.

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We are seeking an enthusiastic and personable candidate for the role of Coordinator and Events Manager for the Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre (EngBio IRC, formerly SynBio IRC). This is a fixed term maternity cover role for 12 months or until the return of the postholder,...

Postgraduate/Postdoc-level position available with biotechnology consulting firm. Working towards the development and evaluation of rapid in vitro diagnostics tools.

Data scientist position available with biotechnology consulting firm for a candidate with experience in bioinformatics and omics.

Senior scientist position available for candidate with experience in biochemical engineering, process sensing and/or process scale-up methodologies.

Postdoc position available across the labs of Dr Alexander Jones, Professor Henrik Jönsson and Professor Elliot Meyerowitz at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University. Working to understand the role of cellular cytokinin dynamics in Arabidopsis thaliana meristem development with current tools whilst also pursuing biosensors for cytokinin.

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate in Rice Molecular and Cellular Genetics to work with Prof Uta Paszkowski in the Crop Science Centre starting in October 2022.  Most plants, including important crops such as rice, live in beneficial associations with arbuscular...

Hitachi is an innovation-driven company with more than a century of customer trust, aiming to develop new technologies to contribute to social innovation and sustainable growth. To achieve this agenda, we are looking to recruit a permanent Hitachi Cambridge...

Graduate to Postdoc-level position available Natural England. Working to advise the government on the use of genetic technologies in conservation.

Three postdoc positions available in the lab of Dr Stephen Wallace, University of Edinburgh. Using modern synthetic biology techniques to develop sustainable microbial solutions to current petrochemical processes used in industry.

Graduate-level position available with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Working on the expression and purification, electrophysiological characterisation and the subsequent analysis of a range of nanopores.

Post-graduate/Postdoc-level position available with Cambridge biotech startup. Working to develop transcriptomics capabilities for assessment of differentiated iPSCs for cell therapeutics.

Post-graduate/Postdoc-level position available with Xap Therapeutics. Working to apply CRISPR technology to engineer iPSCs for cell therapeutics.

Postdoc-level position available with Cambridge biotech startup working on a novel desktop DNA synthesis platform.

Lab management position available with biotech start-up Constructive Bio. Working to turn cells into bio-renewable factories for the production of novel molecules.