Our Career Faculty are among the top figures worldwide in their chosen fields, working in a vibrant and confident culture that consistently produces world-changing research. The top-ranked higher education institution in the UK for research quality and impact, we are also rated among the world’s best universities in measures of innovation and collaboration with industry.
New members of our Career Faculty will join us in an exciting period of growth and expansion as we take forward our research strategy.
As a senior Team Leader you will play a vital role in contributing to this strategy, and will have the unique opportunity to make a mark on our research environment.
You will have the proven leadership skills and international research credibility to direct major scientific programmes, and build and manage a motivated and high-performing scientific team. Our culture emphasises the importance of collaborative working to address the big challenges in cancer research, and you will be expected to form part of the wider ICR team. You will also recruit and develop the research leaders of the future.
We offer support throughout the process of relocating and embedding your team at the ICR, and as you continue to build on your achievements.
We understand that access to world-class facilities and technology platforms is essential to maximise the progress you are able to make with your research and will work with you to shape access to facilities to meet your needs.
As an intellectual leader in your field, you will have the chance to use your platform at the ICR to influence and contribute to wider public discussions to ensure your research has the maximum benefit for people with cancer.
And with access to expertise across the spectrum of cancer research disciplines, you will build on our success – leading innovation through new collaborations across the ICR, and with external collaborators in academia, healthcare and industry.
At the Institute of Cancer Research, London, we support our scientists with state-of-the-art platform technologies and expert facilities staff. We provide cutting-edge facilities for microscopy, imaging, sequencing, proteomics, X-ray crystallography and much more.
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Professor Jessica Downs
Team Leader, Epigenetics and Genome Stability
Professor Jessica Downs is a leading researcher in the study of chromatin and the epigenetic regulation of cell division. Her team is progressing our understanding of how DNA packaging influences the stability of genetic information, and how this can in turn affect the development and progression of cancer.
She joined the ICR in 2016, relocating along with her lab from the University of Sussex. She is the co-chair of the ICR’s Athena SWAN steering group, which works to promote equality of opportunity in the workplace.
“The ICR is really special because it provides an environment where basic research sits alongside translational and clinical work. For my team, this has led to many new collaborations which will allow our research to have benefit for patients as quickly as possible. The ICR is also a leader in industry collaboration, and we have received a lot of support to develop our research in partnership with industry – again hugely important to us in terms of driving the impact of our work.”