Centre Director

Vacancy Reference Number

19468BR

Closing Date

20 Mar 2025

Salary

The successful candidate will be paid at a point to be negotiated on the appropriate Cardiff University Pay Scale based on their qualifications, skills and experience.

Duration

The tenured appointment will be made at the level of Clinical or non-Clinical Professor.

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), principally funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), and Cardiff University are seeking to appoint an outstanding established academic to a new Chair in Neuroscience and to leadership of the UK DRI Centre within the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. The tenured appointment will be made at the level of Clinical or non-Clinical Professor. We are looking for an Internationally recognised scientist working in any area relevant to the overarching mission of the MRC's UK DRI, “To improve understanding of disease mechanisms and identify therapeutic targets for dementia and other forms of neurodegeneration”. This includes the biology of behavioural and psychiatric features of dementia.

Further Information

https://www.ukdri.ac.uk/vacancies/centre-director-uk-dri-cardiff

Contact Details

For informal enquiries please contact:

Prof Paul Morgan, Interim Director, UK DRI at Cardiff University on MorganBP@cardiff.ac.uk

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