Technical Specialist – Neurodegeneration & Spatial Omics
📍 Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK | 💰 £40K–£48K/year | 🧠 2-year post
Are you passionate about neuroscience and cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics?
Here’s your chance to contribute to world-class research on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & ALS.
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Title | Technical Specialist: Neurodegenerative Disease Spatial Transcriptomics and Data Generation |
| Organization/Publisher | Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| Work Location | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Saffron Walden, United Kingdom |
| Research Field | Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Histology, Biomedicine, Pathology |
| Funding Info | Funded via Open Targets public‑private partnership and institutional support |
| Application Deadline | 27 Jul 2025 23:59 (Europe/London) / 28 Jul 2025 00:59 (CET) |
| Posted Date | Published 3 Jul 2025 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Researcher Profile | Technical Specialist (Research assistant) |
| Apply | Apply here |
| Required Qualification | MSc or equivalent experience in a biological science |
| Required Experience | Lab work experience, histology/tissue handling, protocol adherence, team collaboration |
| Salary Details | £40,523–£48,143 per annum (depending on skills & experience) |
Join the Bayraktar lab at the Wellcome Sanger Institute as a Technical Specialist working on spatial transcriptomics and high‑plex protein imaging in neurodegenerative disease research. You will optimize and coordinate spatial omics data generation from patient tissue for large-scale ALS, AD, and PD atlasing.
Are you passionate about neurodegenerative disease research and cutting-edge genomics techniques? The Wellcome Sanger Institute invites applications for a Technical Specialist to join the Bayraktar lab, where you’ll play a key role in generating high-quality spatial transcriptomics datasets from patient brain tissue.
Supported by the Open Targets consortium, this 2‑year position is ideally suited for someone with a biology MSc (or equivalent experience) and lab experience, particularly in histology, tissue handling, and protocol development. While prior spatial omics experience is advantageous, comprehensive training will be provided.
Your initial focus will be on optimizing Xenium spatial transcriptomics and multiplexed protein imaging techniques in neurodegenerative tissue. As the project progresses, you’ll expand your responsibilities to supervising and coordinating large-scale single cell and spatial transcriptomics data generation, contributing directly to comparative atlases of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS—some of the most pressing neurological diseases today.
This role offers not just technical responsibilities, but also opportunities to collaborate with both wet‑lab and dry‑lab scientists across Open Targets partners, including teams working in Oxford, Cambridge, and London. It’s a career path designed for those who thrive in interdisciplinary settings and want to contribute at the interface of neuroscience, genomics, and translational medicine.
In return for your contributions, you’ll benefit from a competitive annual salary (£40,500–£48,100, depending on experience), exposure to world‑leading spatial omics infrastructure, and the professional growth that comes with working at one of the world’s top genomics research institutions.
If you’re ready to drive forward our understanding of brain diseases using spatial multi-omic techniques, apply by 27 July 2025 with your updated CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and motivations. Don’t miss this chance to become part of a pioneering team shaping the future of neurodegeneration research.
