Chair of Children’s Cancer, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Location: London
Working pattern: full time, on-site
UCL is a world-leading, global university with a community of more than 51,000 students from 150 countries and over 18,000 staff. We pursue academic excellence, break boundaries, and make a positive impact on real-world problems. We are consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the world and are one of only a handful of institutions rated as having the strongest academic reputation. We are ambitious for change and are committed to taking ever bolder and more impactful interventions towards becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive university.
Part of UCL’s world-leading Faculty of Population Health Sciences, the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOS ICH) is one of the world’s leading centres for research and education in children’s health. Together with its clinical partner, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), it forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America, bringing together outstanding discovery, translational and clinical research with world-class specialist paediatric care.
UCL is now seeking to appoint an exceptional Chair of Children’s Cancer within GOS ICH. This is a major strategic appointment, with the successful candidate responsible for shaping the future paediatric cancer research strategy across GOS ICH and GOSH and providing overarching leadership for the cancer research and clinical community.
The appointment comes at an important time as GOSH moves towards the opening of the new Children’s Cancer Centre, alongside significant strategic investment in paediatric cancer expertise, leadership, personnel and infrastructure. The Chair will have the opportunity to bring together existing areas of strength into a coherent and forward-looking strategy, building a nationally leading and internationally competitive programme that leverages GOSH and UCL’s core strengths in cancer genomics, clinical trials, experimental therapies and education.
Working in close partnership with clinical and academic leaders across GOSH, GOS ICH and UCL, including the UCL Cancer Institute, the Chair will build and lead a high-performing clinical academic translational programme and help create a truly integrated research and clinical service. They will provide strategic leadership for research investment, infrastructure, recruitment and team development; strengthen collaboration across organisational and disciplinary boundaries; and foster an environment that supports education, training and mentorship for the next generation of paediatric cancer researchers and clinicians.
We are seeking an internationally recognised clinician scientist with an outstanding track record of research relevant to childhood cancers and the strategic leadership capability to bring together clinical and academic communities around a shared vision. You will bring a substantial record of internationally excellent research, successful external grant funding and translational research, together with experience of leading and developing high-performing research teams and successful multidisciplinary collaborations. You will be an inclusive, collaborative and influential leader, able to build productive relationships across complex organisational boundaries and inspire colleagues around a shared ambition for paediatric cancer research and care.
This appointment represents a rare opportunity to shape the future of children’s cancer research and its translation into clinical care within one of the world’s foremost environments for children’s health.
For more information, please contact Reece D’Alanno on reece.dalanno@veredus.co.uk or Nataliya Starik-Bludova on Nataliya.starik-bludova@veredus.co.uk.
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Chair of Children’s Cancer, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health employer: Veredus
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