JOB: Research Associate in Biostatistics, University of Leicester, MRC funded project

Research Associate in Biostatistics

Department of Health Sciences

College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology

University of Leicester

Salary Grade 7 - £32,958 to £38,183 per annum

Full-time open ended contract subject to fixed term funding. Funding is available from 01 October 2017 until 29 February 2020

We wish to appoint an experienced researcher to develop and carry out independent research, contributing as a team member to the Medical Research Council funded project, "Development of methods for the analysis of complex survival and joint longitudinal-survival data with application to linked electronic health records". The post will involve the development and application of advanced statistical methods in the fields of multi-state survival analysis and joint longitudinal-survival models, using electronic health records from the UK, Sweden and Denmark, in both the areas of cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology. The ideal candidate will have high-level expertise in biostatistics/medical statistics/applied statistics with evidence of research productivity and innovative research in the field of survival analysis. You will be educated to MSc level with either a PhD in a relevant area or extensive research experience.
For further details about the project and an informal discussion about the post, please contact me on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To apply and for further particulars, please go here:

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The closing date for this post is midnight on 29 June 2017.

We anticipate that interviews will take place on 19 or 20 July 2017.

Thanks,

Michael J. Crowther, PhD

Lecturer in Biostatistics
PhD available: Predicting pregnancy outcomes using
longitudinal biomarkers
Department of Health Sciences,
College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology,
University of Leicester, Centre for Medicine,
University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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