The University of Dundee has been awarded a £7million grant from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Global Health programme to establish a major new Scotland-India clinical partnership to combat diabetes. The new project will see Dundee’s world leading expertise in the use of genomics linked to medical records to deliver improved care in diabetes `twinned’ with the large patient data set (covering over 400,000 Indian diabetic patients) collected by Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, the largest clinical network of diabetes care in India. The project aims to combine clinical, retinal image and molecular information to achieve personalised diabetes treatment in India.

The successful candidate will join the Computer Vision and Image Processing group (CVIP) and the Dundee VAMPIRE (Vascular Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina) team co-ordinated by Professors Emanuele Trucco and Stephen J McKenna.

Potential applicants are encouraged to have an informal discussion about the post with Professor Emanuele Trucco e.trucco@dundee.ac.uk.

This position is full-time and available to 31st March 2021. For further information see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BDK731/postdoctoral-research-assistant-computing-nihr-global-health-unit-on-diabetes-outcomes-research-at-dundee-university/

Closing date: 6th September 2017