This one-year clinical fellowship offers a unique opportunity for the successful applicant to gain hands-on experience in advanced radiotherapy techniques, including adaptive radiotherapy, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) and MR-guided radiotherapy for lung cancer.
The fellow will engage in clinical trials, gaining insight into trial design, and novel treatment approaches. The post holder will also play an active role in recruiting patients onto lung cancer clinical trials and providing comprehensive care for those enrolled.
This is your opportunity to launch a career in world-leading cancer research. You will play your part in our overall strategy to drive the adoption of more personalised treatment approaches. We are looking for candidates with ambition, commitment and a strong desire to develop a career in cancer research.
This position is suitable for individuals who wish to gain specialist training in advanced radiotherapy research. The post holder is required to have obtained a FRCR qualification or equivalent prior to commencing this post.
This post is for 40 hours per week to provide support for the appropriate clinics and lung cancer research taking place in the Radiotherapy Related Research Group within the department of Clinical Oncology.
The post holder will also play an active role in the recruitment of patients onto lung cancer clinical trials and in all aspects of care for patients enrolled on these trials. They will work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary teams and will support the consultants, clinical fellows, specialist registrars, and clinical research nurses in managing the clinical trial portfolio of the Lung Cancer Research Team.
It is anticipated that the post-holder will attend appropriate clinics per week (a maximum of one research and one NHS clinics) and multidisciplinary meetings. In addition, they will participate in clinical research meetings and any other relevant trial planning or trial set-up meetings. The post-holder will also spend time analysing clinical data, writing abstracts/manuscripts, planning new studies and attending educational meetings.
The Lung team consists of consultants, specialist registrars and clinical fellows and we are supported by a team of clinical nurse specialists. We are a friendly, hard-working team focused on delivering high quality patient-centred care. We encourage all members of team to engage in SMDT, clinics and inpatient care.
We have a team of research radiographers led by a team leader who implement radiotherapy (RT) clinical trials including access to advanced technologies such as MR-Linac and protons.
We have access to a National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Facility on-site. This facility gives us access to a dedicated unit to treat patients on trials and a research laboratory to process clinical samples.
The Radiotherapy Related Research department has world-leading collaborative researchers in RT immunology, radiobiology, biomarkers, pre-clinical drug RT combination studies, RT physics, computational oncology and Proton Beam Therapy. Its ambition is to drive Phase I-III clinical trials with state-of-the art radiotherapy, alongside imaging and biological prognostic and predictive biomarker development including genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Professor Corinne Faivre-Finn Job title: Chair Thoracic Radiation Oncology/Hon Consultant Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0845 226 3000
