APPLICANT - Imperial College London

CODE: KCL/009
F1
F2
See rotation
for site
Guy’s and
St Thomas’
NHS
Foundation
Trust
General
Medicine (St
Thomas’
Hospital)
3m
Elderly Care
(St Thomas’
Hospital)
Haematology 4m General
Medicine
3m
4m
Orthopaedics
(Guy’s
Hospital)
Pharmacology
(Academic
Attachment)
3m
4m
General
Surgery
(Vasc) (St
Thomas’
Hospital)
3m
Guy’s Drug Research Unit (GDRU) now Quintiles Drug Research Unit at Guy’s Hospital
evolved from the interaction of academics at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and the
Pharmaceutical Industry working together in early drug development. The Unit has
investigated over 300 new small molecules and biologics in man. Quintiles Drug Research
Unit has a 75 bed unit adjacent to the Hodgkin Building at the Guy’s site of King’s College,
London and a 35 bed unit on the 14 th floor of the Tower Wing also on the Guy’s site. In 1995
GDRU was acquired by Quintiles, the leading international contract research organisation.
Founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings, a British biostatistician then based at the University of
North Carolina, Quintiles now has approximately 20,000 employees and has offices in more
than 50 countries. Quintiles has helped develop or commercialise every one of the world’s
top 30 best selling drugs. Training and experience will be available in exploratory, early
phase drug development, tailored to suit the trainee. Most of the training offered will be
available on the Guy’s site: subjects may include management principles and skills, good
clinical practise, communication skills, computer skills, assisting in writing informed consent
documents and Ethics Committee applications, conducting and writing up a personal
research project and the place of research and higher degrees in training for clinical
careers. The senior medical staff are Professor Tim Mant, Dr Darren Wilbraham, Dr
Marianne Kasti and Professor James Ritter. The associated F2 clinical attachments will be
Haematology and General Medicine (Respiratory).
Post 10 – Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Medicine (Professor T Lee) – based at
GSTT
CODE: KCL/010
F1
F2
St Thomas’
Hospital
Guy’s and
St Thomas’
NHS
Foundation
Trust
Trauma &
Orthopaedics
Accident &
Emergency
3m
4m
General
Surgery
(Lower GI)
Allergy/
Respiratory
Medicine
3m Rheumatology 3m General
Medicine
4m GUM 4m
3m
The post will be based within the Division of AALB in KCL, which has very close links with
the Allergy and Respiratory Medicine NHS Services at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation
Trust. The Divisional research programmes are internationally competitive. In 2005 the MRC
awarded funds to establish a MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma at
KCL in partnership with Asthma UK, Imperial College and associated NHS Trusts. Divisional
research programmes are supported by three current programme grants (one from MRC,
one from Wellcome Trust and one from NIHR); grants from the Immune Tolerance Network;
and Food Standards Agency. The total value of research awards in the Division is c. £31.4m.
Broad research areas covered include IgE structure, function and regulation; airways
inflammation and remodelling; prevention and therapy of allergy, asthma and chronic
respiratory morbidity; tight junction biology; the EFGR network in normal airway epithelium
and lung cancer; and Endobronchial Ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of
Thoracic Diseases. The clinical/basic science interface is key to the Division’s success.
Close interactions between non-clinical and clinical scientists provide improved opportunities
for new ideas to arise and for discoveries from gene to bedside to be fully exploited for the
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