Paediatric Formulations Research Fellow

School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

University of Birmingham - College of Medical and Dental Sciences

Salary from £27,428 to £37,990 a year

The Department of Health maintains the Medicines for Children Research Network (MCRN), which forms part of the UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN). The MCRN provides a world-class health service infrastructure to facilitate the conduct of randomised prospective trials and other well-designed studies in all aspects of medicines for children.

Supporting this programme is the MCRN Formulation Workstream which has been developed to provide leadership in formulation for the MCRN. Specialist formulation sites are supported in the West Midlands local health service research network (LRN), Cheshire and Merseyside and North Wales LRN and London South East, North Central and East (SENCE) LRNs.

We wish to recruit an MCRN formulation research based within the new Pharmacy research development within the College of Medical & Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

The postholder will:

• operate as part of the Clinical Pharmacy Group within the School of Clinical & Experimental Medicine, liaising through this conduit with the MCRN executives and other Formulation Workstream research sites based at Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital (Alder Hey) and Liverpool John Moores University and The Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research at the School of Pharmacy, University of London
• participate in supporting the LRN in developing, leading and managing formulations projects contributing to the formulations work stream of the MCRN.
• participate in the development, production and dissemination of the outputs of research relating to paediatric medicines formulations that will reflect local and national formulation needs.
• contribute to the further expansion of the LRN formulations research portfolio

The successful applicant will have a background in Pharmacy or the pharmaceutical sciences and the ability to conduct quantitative and / or qualitative research in paediatric formulations. As such a relevant higher degree would be desirable.

For informal enquiries please contact Professor John Marriott (Professor of Clinical Pharmacy) on J.F.Marriott@bham.ac.uk or Tel: 0121 414 4094

Closing date: 13 October 2011

Reference: 49249

To download the details and submit an electronic application online visit: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs alternatively information can be obtained from 0121 415 9000.

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