Overview
Research Assistant (BioResource) – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us:
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Research Assistant for BioResource within the NIHR BioResource Centre Maudsley.
You will be based in the KCL Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) working on an exciting programme of projects, such as the UK Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative (EDGI UK) the GLAD-MHG Omics Cohort, one of the UK’s most ambitious precision psychiatry initiatives, hosted in the NIHR BioResource Centre Maudsley and supported by the UK Government’s Office for Life Sciences.
These centres offer a diverse research environment that is open, welcoming and supportive to all. The faculty-wide initiatives are supported by an active Diversity & Inclusion Team.
About the role:
This will be a post working on fundamental recruitment, research, and data analysis tasks based in the NIHR BioResource Centre Maudsley. The BioResource is focused on recruiting participants with mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders as well as other health conditions in diverse populations. The post-holder will have extensive involvement in the GLAD-MHG Omics Cohort, one of the UK’s most ambitious precision psychiatry initiatives, hosted in the NIHR BioResource Centre Maudsley and supported by the UK Government’s Office for Life Sciences.
The GLAD-MHG Omics Cohort builds on the established GLAD Study (>38,000 participants) and will recruit a further 12,000 people with recurrent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), including 2,500 with longitudinal biosampling. This resource will combine multi-omic profiling, advanced digital phenotyping (e.g. wearable data, AI-based speech analysis), and NHS medical record linkage, all curated in the DATAMIND Trusted Research Environment.
The post-holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team of clinical, research and mental health professionals and will provide support for large scale research studies including GLAD and EDGI UK. The post-holder will have good organisational skills, be adaptable, proactive, possess good teamwork skills and be capable of working independently. Ideally, they should possess knowledge of R or Python or be willing to learn these skills. Further, knowledge of Qualtrics would be desired.
The BioResource team supports local recruitment within the Trust, requiring venepuncture skills. The successful candidate will be phlebotomy trained or willing to attend courses to acquire this skill. They will work with the BioResource team to consent biological samples in the form of blood and/or saliva, enter data, manage online databases of participant information, and run reports at PI’s request. The post holder will work within (and travel to) King’s College London and Kings Health Partners clinical and research sites, and within a team of research assistants.
This is a full time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a 2-year contract. The start date will be on/after the 1st April 2026.
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