Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow
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Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow
Research opportunity for a postdoctoral clinical fellow in the Neural Circuits and Immunity in Psychosis Laboratory at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. The project focuses on studying immune alterations in psychosis patients using state-of-the-art transcriptomics and proteomics, with cross-species approaches to understand neural and immune contributions to psychosis.
The Project
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a unique partnership between UKRI Medical Research Council, UCL, Imperial College London, King's College London, Wellcome, and Cancer Research UK.
We study the biological mechanisms underlying psychosis. Our goal is to find new ways to treat brain disorders such as schizophrenia. Psychosis is characterised by disturbances of perception and thought. These are subjective phenomena and have traditionally been difficult to study biologically. Our recent work has established a new approach that combines behavioural observations and computational models to measure psychosis-like phenomena in humans and mice. We use this cross-species approach to study how neural and immune processes give rise to psychosis.
We are looking for clinician scientist interested in studying immune alterations in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of psychosis patients using state-of-the-art transcriptomics and proteomics. This project will lay the groundwork for then probing in mice how the identified immune alterations can lead to psychosis-like experiences as measured with our behavioural-computational approach.
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[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom