Senior Scientist

The University of Edinburgh; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK university is seeking a candidate for a full-time role in cardiovascular research management. The successful applicant will manage a high-quality research program funded by the British Heart Foundation. Key responsibilities include supervising staff and ensuring successful research outcomes. The role requires extensive experience in cardiovascular disease and gene therapy, and will begin on 1st January 2026.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive Staff Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Qualifications

• Significant post-doctoral experience required.
• Demonstrated success in delivering research project results.
• Extensive experience of analytical methods in cardiovascular research.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, and implement high-quality cardiovascular research.
• Involve management of postdoctoral and technical staff.
• Provide input into publications and research outcomes.

Skills

Extensive research experience in cardiovascular disease

Research project management

Experience in gene therapy

Job description

The Opportunity

Grade UE08: £50,253 - £61,759 per annum

CMVM / Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research / Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-Term: 31st July 2026

The Opportunity:

This 7 month post (subject to renewal at the BHF Site Visit in late October) will plan, manage and implement a programme of high quality cardiovascular research funded by the British Heart Foundation Research Chair of Translational Cardiovascular Sciences to Professor Andrew Baker, which is positioned to understand and exploit mechanisms of regeneration and repair in cardiac disease. This will involve research into cardiac and vascular remodelling/gene therapy and how to manipulate therapeutically and assess therapeutic gain in models of disease. This role will include management of staff, including postdoctoral and PhD posts, technical staff, training and data resources, with the aim of providing high level input into the research of the BHF Chair, for example, publications of research outcomes in high impact journals and training.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. The post is on-site and not open to hybrid working.

Post required to start on 1st January 2026.

Your skills and attributes for success

• Extensive research experience in analysis and management of research projects in the wet lab relating to cardiovascular disease or gene therapy and significant post-doctoral experience.
• Experience and demonstrated success in delivering research project results
• Experience and achievement in the specialist area, reflected in a growing personal research portfolio
• Extensive experience of developing and applying models, techniques and analytical methods as appropriate to answer important questions in cardiovascular research and gene therapy.

How to apply

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

• CV
• Cover letter

As a valued member of our team you can expect

• A competitive salary
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on the staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on the right to work webpages

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates

The closing date for applications is 6th October 2025. Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browser's local time zone.