Research Coordinaor
3 weeks ago
**Last date of Application:29/02/2024**
**Position**
Research Coordinator in SOLI3D group
**Appointing Organisation**
Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata
**The Tata Medical Center and the Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre**
The Tata Medical Center, Kolkata (TMC-K) is a multispecialty institution for tertiary cancer care.
At TMC-K, clinical and research activities are integrated to provide state-of-the-art care for
patients with cancer. This integration is enabled by the Tata Translational Cancer Research
Centre (TTCRC), the research arm of TMC-K. At TTCRC, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians,
scientists, academics and industry professionals collaborate to develop a systems medicine
approach in cancer research. This approach is focussed on developing innovative, indigenous,
cost-effective and equitable strategies to improve cancer diagnosis; develop cancer disease
models, identify prognostic and predictive disease biomarkers and develop personalised
medicine for cancer. These strategies are multi-dimensional and involve an iterative integrated
pathway that include clinical trials, high-throughput laboratory studies, sophisticated data
analytics, hypothesis-driven pre-clinical studies and evidence-based clinical translation.
**SOLI3D Research Group**
Applications are invited for the position of Research Coordinator within the SOLI3D (**S**olid tumour
**O**rganoid **L**aboratory for **I**nvestigation into **D**isease biology, **D**rug response profiling and **D**rug
discovery) research group at TTCRC. As the group name suggests, the group conducts pre
- clinical research involving patient derived organoid models from different solid tumours. Organoids
are pre-clinical 3-dimensional tissue culture models derived from primary cells that self-organise
into miniature organ-like structures. Organoids closely recapitulate the parent organs histo
- pathologically, functionally and at the molecular level. The group intends to utilise the developed
tumour organoid models for studying the disease biology, find alternative therapeutic options and
develop a platform for personalised cancer treatment based on functional screening approach.
The group’s work is focussed currently on two cancers
- gallbladder cancer and breast cancer. The
group is supported by a dedicated tissue biorepository, a clinical research unit, genomics,
proteomics and informatics units.
**Roles and Responsibilities of the position**
The primary goal of the Research Coordinator would be to develop and maintain coordination
among various stakeholders of the research project - the patients and family, clinicians, nurses
and other hospital staffs, biobank team and the organoid laboratory research team. The Research
Coordinator will be the vital link among the patients, various clinical and non-clinical departments
of the hospital (TMC-K and other future collaborative hospitals) and the research laboratory at
TTCRC. The post holder will have to support the SOLI3D research team of TTCRC in close
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coordination with the TiMBR (biobank) team. We expect you to understand Good Clinical Practice
and have excellent interpersonal skills, effective communication skills (both oral and written),
strong team working skills and an innovative approach to challenges. Other important tasks of the
research coordinator will be research related documentation, data integration and data
management.
(a) Close liaison with clinical departments to
- identify eligible patients
- facilitate patient consenting for participation in the study
- address patient queries related to research samples and proposed research studies
- raise requests for research sampling
- coordinate sample collection
- ensure collection of accompanying relevant clinical and sample-related data, and
- maintain rigorous documentation, in line with Good Clinical Practice guidelines
(b) Coordination with TTCRC research colleagues (biorepository and SOLI3D groups) to ensure
timely sample collection and transport to the research laboratories
(c) Comprehensive data management, including clinical and sampling data of study patients,
related diagnostic laboratory information, planned research studies, status and findings from
completed research studies and requirement for clinical and/or sampling follow-up
(d) Periodic updates on study details (including analysis of relevant study findings) at regular group
meetings, at lab presentations, as part of research reports, etc.
**Minimum required qualifications/experience**
(a) Master’s degree in nursing with 2 yrs of experience as research coordinator or equivalent
relevant experience
Or,
Master’s degree in a biomedical science field or a related field with 2 yrs of experience as
research coordinator or equivalent relevant experience
(c) Advanced Beginner competency in managing spreadsheets
(d) Beginner-level competency in data analysis and statistic
