preDiCT-Computational Prediction of Drug Cardiotoxicity
Full-time Research Assistant
Grade 7: Salary £27,466 - £33,780 p.a.
PreDiCT “Computational prediction of drug cardiotoxicity” is a recently-announced European Union project funded within the Virtual Physiological Human call. It aims to develop the computational tools and models, algorithms and methodologies required for the assessment of drug action in cardiac electromechanical behaviour. It is an international, multi-institutional and cross-disciplinary project team involving world experts on the theoretical and experimental techniques to study cardiac behaviour, and also major pharmaceutical companies.
A two-year research position is available to work in a research team involving the Computational Biology Group at the Computing Laboratory and the Computational Physiology Research Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford . The project started on June 2nd, 2008, and will run until the end of May 2011. The main aim is the identification of new biomarkers of drug cardiotoxicity using signal processing and computational modelling of cardiac electrophysiological behaviour.
The appointee will be expected to:
- Develop ECG signal processing algorithms to identify potential biomarkers for drug-induced pro-arrhythmic risk;
- Investigate mechanisms of drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias using computational modelling in combination with clinical and experimental data.
Further Particulars, including how to apply, are available here
The closing date for applications is 22nd September 2008.
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