03 Apr 20. Job - Research Fellow

DEADLINE: DEFERRED TO 2021 DUE TO COVID-19

DIRECT APPLICATIONS TO: Job reference 051857

PROJECT TITLE: Perivascular spaces: an early marker of vascular contributions to neurodegeneration

SALARY: University of Edinburgh Grade 7 (£33,797 to £40,332)

DEPARTMENT: Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

LEAD SUPERVISOR: 

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Purpose:

  • Conduct original research, centred around recently developed computational methods
  • Measure perivascular spaces, a potential biomarker of future dementia risk, visible on brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging
  • Target patients at risk of small vessel disease (SVD), dementia, stroke & other forms of neurodegeneration
• Methods:
  • Test & improve computational methods (including machine learning approaches) for measuring perivascular spaces on brain MR in people
  • Discover associations between perivascular space morphologies & current cognitive / functional status as well as future cognitive & functional declines using data from studies in different patient groups
• Funding, support & collaboration:
  • Weston Brain Institute
  • Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence in Perivascular Spaces
  • EU Horizon 2020 SVDs@Target

DEADLINE: DEFERRED TO 2021 DUE TO COVID-19DIRECT APPLICATIONS TO: Job reference 051857