About the team
The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research, in the Division of Breast Cancer Research, is the first centre in the UK entirely devoted to breast cancer research. Our goal is to advance research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The Centre is located in state-of-the-art laboratory space in central London, is supported by excellent core facilities and is funded through a long term renewable programme grant from Breast Cancer Now.
The Director of the Centre is clinician scientist Professor Andrew Tutt. Professor Chris Lord is the Deputy Director and is a cancer biologist. Our work is fully integrated in a programme that Professor Tutt directs with our colleagues in the Breast Cancer Now Unit at King’s College London (KCL Deputy Director Dr. Sheeba Irshad). We also work closely with partners across the ICR and with colleagues in the Royal Marsden Hospital and Guy’s Hospital.
About the role
Key to our success is the ability to fund the research in the Centre and the Division, either by competitive research grants, or via collaborations with those in the biotech. and pharmaceutical commercial sectors.
Enabling, managing and maintaining key collaborations with other academic research groups, both external and within ICR is also key to our success.
This role is therefore aimed at providing assistance to the Director, Deputy Directors and Principal Investigators by:
- supporting our ongoing relationship with our main funder, Breast Cancer Now, by project managing the submission from the Centre of annual reports and our five year cross-programme grant renewal application
- identifing new grant funding opportunities and supporting grant applications
- identifying and project managing new commercial opportunities e.g. collaborations with pharma. and biotech.
- working with the ICR’s Business and Innovation team to develop research agreements and commercial contracts that support collaborations with pharma. and biotech.
- carrying out administrative tasks associated with the use of the selection and acquisition of equipment in collaboration with the Research Centre’s laboratory manager
- carrying out administrative tasks associated with the use of scientific core facilities and CROs
- carrying out supporting administration that is associated with interactions with scientific collaborators, including our colleagues within ICR, the ICR/Imperial College CRUK Convergence Science Centre, the Breast Cancer Now Research Unit at King’s College London and colleagues in the Royal Marsden Hospital and Guy’s Hospital
- assisting with the composition and submission of research manuscripts from the Centre, including liaising with communications teams within ICR and Breast Cancer Now
- managing our Patient Representatives programme
- managing scientific content on external website pages and on internal wiki pages. Assisting with the implementation of our new laboratory lab management system. (SLIMs)
- planning of scientific meetings and any scientific associated tasks that aid the delivery of research in the Centre & Division, including monthly Group Leaders meetings and retreats
Key candidate requirements
- Hold a PhD in a life science subject
- Extensive knowledge of wet laboratory cancer research gained from working in a cancer research laboratory
- Knowledge of the academic/charitable industry funding system
- Knowledge of Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology
- Proven scientific communication skills (written and verbal)