Joining our Lab
Contact Dr. James Choi at j.choi@imperial.ac.uk about which projects are available in the laboratory.
Animal Technician
Closing date: 13 December 2023
Start date: From 1 January 2024
Duration: 12 months
Salary: £34,273 – £37,180 (pro rata)
Part-Time (60% full-time equivalent)
We are seeking an individual acting as animal technician and lab manager in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. The post holder would join two vibrant laboratories, one led by Dr James Choi and the other led by Dr Sam Au. Your work would help support the unique and joint missions of the two laboratories.
Our joint laboratory mission is to develop ultrasound and microbubble technologies to diagnose and treat diseases. Dr Choi’s laboratory mission is to create noninvasive technologies – devices that can manipulate and sense tissue from the surface. One of his goals is to build focused ultrasound technologies for delivering drugs to the brain. Dr Au’s laboratory mission is to create lab-on-chip microdevices to solve important problems in cancer metastasis and cancer immunotherapy. Another objective of his microdevices is to generate microbubbles used to diagnose or treat diseases.
Choi Laboratory: www.nsblab.org
Au Laboratory: https://biomicrotech.science/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG02866/animaltechnician
Facilities and Resources
The Laboratory
We are equipped to run experiments at multiple levels:
Physics
Phantoms (eg, hydrogels)
In vitro (eg, cell cultures, ex vivo human skulls)
In vivo
We design and manufacture our own ultrasound emitters and receivers. We create our microbubbles in-house. Some of the equipment we have include:
Emitters and receivers: 16 single-element transducers (0.5, 1, 5, and 7.5 MHz), a linear imaging array, a 256-element therapeutic ultrasound array
Multi-element array manufacturing facilities
Microbubble manufacturing setup
Signal generators, power amplifiers, filters, scopes, etc.
Optical microscopes with high frame rate cameras
3D printer (FormLabs 3+)
Experimental water tanks
Basic life sciences equipment
Focused ultrasound equipment.
Department Facilities
We also have access to all shared Department facilities including:
Histology Room
Tissue Culture Room
Microscopy Suite (including confocal microscopy)
Electronics Workshop
Machine Workshop and 3D Printing Facilities
IVIS systems
Collaborators’ Facilities
2-photon microscopes (for in vitro and in vivo use)
Verasonics imaging engines (2 systems)
Nanoindentation systems
In vitro brain slice models
9Tesla MRI scanners