The at Imperial College London is looking for a motivated and organised Research and Translation Project Manager to oversee and manage the research and translational activities of our Mosaic Neuropharmacology research programme and the Choi Laboratory, ensuring that all projects are executed on time, within budget, and meet high-quality standards.
The successful candidate will act as a central point of coordination among researchers, collaborators, and stakeholders, facilitating communication and driving project milestones forward.
This role is part of an Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) funded project.
You will devise the project plan, strategy, and mission, together with the larger research team; and ensure that the team delivers on the promised programme objectives and maximises the scientific and translational impact of the overall research programme. This work also involves managing the financial and operational machinery of the research programme (£3.9 million), working with others both internally and externally.
You will be coordinating the Choi Lab and a large research programme involving 8 principal investigators, 4 post-doctoral researchers, and 3 PhD students from Imperial College London, King’s College London, University of Arizona, and the University of Michigan.
The programme aims to build a noninvasive technology for precisely delivering distinct drugs to targeted brain regions with exceptional spatial and temporal control. Our approach will engineer particles capable of carrying drug payloads that release only in response to specific remote signals. Your device will direct these signals to specific brain regions, enabling precise targeting. We will validate this platform in rats and rabbits, demonstrating the controlled release of multiple drugs to different areas of the brain. Using these technical innovations, we will perform "mosaic neuropharmacology"—a novel method for manipulating neural circuits across the brain noninvasively in both space and time. This platform will represent the most advanced tool for brain-targeted material delivery, offering potential for neuroscientists and neurologists to explore and treat neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders more effectively.
1. Exceptional ability to devise a strategy, mission and plan
2. Excellence in organisational and planning skills
3. Fast response to queries and clear communication skills
4. An individual with self-initiative to drive the programme forward.
5. An individual motivated to maximise the social and economic impact of our research programme.
6. An excellent team player who can work in an intense milestone-driven research programme.
7. A hardworking individual motivated by the vision and mission of our research programme.
8. The opportunity to work on a moonshot research programme with the ambition of creating a breakthrough platform for manipulating neural circuits.
9. A launchpad of a strong research and translational project manager track record with 4 years of continuous funding, enabling you to launch a future in academia, industry, or a startup.
10. Learn from world-leading experts in the field, including focused ultrasound arrays and engines from Timothy Hall, Co-Founder of Histosonics, and brain drug delivery technologies from James Choi, winner of the Frederic Lizzi Award from the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound.
11. The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity.
12. Grow your career: gain access to Imperial’s sector-leading dedicated career support for researchers as well as opportunities for promotion and progression.
13. Access to Imperial’s sector-leading as well as opportunities for promotion and progression.
14. Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days off a year and generous pension schemes)
15. Be part of a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources to support your personal and professional wellbeing.