Group Leader

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Application deadline: 02 Nov 2025

Institute: Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
Country: UK
More information: https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/careers/

Join us at the forefront of cancer research!
The Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute (https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk) is seeking to appoint exceptional early-career scientists (including clinician scientists) as Group Leaders to develop bold, innovative, and high-impact research programmes. Situated within one of Europe’s largest and most dynamic cancer research ecosystems, we offer a unique opportunity to pursue cutting-edge discovery science and drive translation into clinical benefit. We are looking for visionary scientists ready to establish an independent, world-leading research programme and take full advantage of the extraordinary collaborative ecosystem across the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (mcrc.manchester.ac.uk), The University of Manchester (www.manchester.ac.uk) and our clinical partners at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust (christie.nhs.uk).

We particularly welcome applicants with expertise in the biology of solid cancers, tumour immunology, cancer evolution, and computational or machine learning approaches to tumour ecosystems; but we encourage visionary proposals from across the spectrum of cancer research that complement and expand our existing strengths.

We encourage applicants from a broad range of scientific disciplines — including molecular biology, mathematics, physics, computational biology, data science, and engineering — to bring fresh perspectives and disruptive approaches to cancer research. We are looking for bold, innovative, and technically pioneering applications with the potential to transform our understanding of cancer biology and drive translational impact.

About you:
You will have a PhD in an area relevant to cancer research, significant and productive post-doctoral experience, a proven track record of impactful publications and ideally, some demonstrable success with funding application(s). You will be highly motivated and confident to deliver an exciting and innovative research programme with a balance of ambition and feasibility. You will be able to communicate clear, well-formulated and incisive research plans that lead to important basic cancer research discoveries and/or deliver applied research with potential for translation to address clinical unmet needs. Prior demonstration of research independence would be an advantage.

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