Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology-OG

Job summary

This position is suitable for an enthusiastic and research-motivated applicant with a Medical degree, who is pursuing a career in Medical Oncology and have an interest in gaining further research and clinical trial experience in the upper GI cancer area.

The successful candidates must hold full General Medical Council (GMC) registration with license to practice and have International English Language Testing System (IELTS)/OET proficiency at the time of post commencement, as appropriate. The Fellowship is a two year, full-time position to support clinical research and to provide specialist experience and training for the successful applicant.

Salary will be on the Specialist Registrar scale, starting salary within range £33,790 - £53,132 per annum, dependent on experience and qualifications. There is no on-call commitment attached to this post.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will need to divide their time between research and a moderate clinical commitment; this may involve clinical research and audit activities, including protocol-writing.

The post will be based within the Department of Medical Oncology under the supervision of Professor Mansoor.

The post-holder will work closely with other members of the upper GI multidisciplinary team and will support the consultants, clinical fellows, specialist registrars, and clinical research nurses in managing the large disease group clinical trial portfolios. This will facilitate more rapid clinical decision making, an

increase in the number of trials opened, together with increased recruitment of patients into new and existing research protocols.

The Fellow will attend appropriate clinics per week (a maximum of four 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 Fellow will also spend time reviewing clinical data, writing abstracts/manuscripts, planning new studies and attending educational meetings.

About us

The Oesophago-Gastric (OG) team has a dedicated research clinic and a portfolio of more than 15 academic and commercial trials evaluating novel drug combinations, including use of immunotherapy alongside chemotherapy in OG cancer. Perioperative chemotherapy has switched in recent years to the 3-drug FLOT combination regimen (5-FU, Oxaliplatin and Docetaxel) and chemotherapy-immunotherapy combinations are moving to become standard of care. We have a large volume of treated patients within the unit, the OG Research Fellow will have the opportunity to evaluate our patient outcomes on available therapies to provide a publishable real-world dataset. Additionally, the OG team at the Christie (led by Professor Was Mansoor) have a specific research interest in the relationship between sarcopenia (loss of skeletal muscle mass), nutrition, fitness and treatment response / toxicity / overall survival with cytotoxic chemotherapy. This is currently being evaluated within context of the observational ANCHOR trial, for which the fellow will be responsible for supporting continued data collection and analysis of the cohort. The fellow will also have the opportunity to assess and support other research work within the team.