Physician-researcher PhD medical oncology

• You will be employed by Amsterdam UMC Research BV.
• A contract for a duration of 12 months, with the intention to extend to a total of four years. The PhD Candidate Directive applies to this vacancy.
• Classification in salary scale 10: € 3,724 to € 5,867 gross for a full-time employment (depending on experience). Additionally, you will receive an 8.3% end-of-year bonus. Calculate your net salary here.
• Vacation hours: 194.4 hours per year for a full-time employment and the possibility to save up hours.
• 100% public transport reimbursement. Do you come by walking, cycling, or by car? Then you will receive a reimbursement of €0.21 per km (for the car, a maximum of 40 km one way applies).
• Do you come by bike? Make use of our good bicycle scheme.
• Pension accrual at BeFrank, a modern, understandable, and fairly priced pension.

You will work in a team of young and enthusiastic researchers with expertise in tumor immunology, immunotherapy, and cancer research, ranging from preclinical to clinical studies. The research takes place within the research institutes Cancer Center Amsterdam (CCA) and the Amsterdam Immunity & Infection Institute (AI&II).

Within this PhD track, you will coordinate two clinical phase I studies and perform translational research. Your activities include, among others, supporting and contributing to patient inclusion, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting clinical outcomes, and performing and analyzing immunological translational research in the laboratory.

You will be supervised by a multidisciplinary team of internist-oncologists, internist-hematologists, and researchers with extensive expertise in the field of immunotherapy. Your main tasks and responsibilities are:

• coordinating two clinical phase I studies within medical oncology and hematology;
• supporting and contributing to the inclusion and guidance of study patients;
• collecting, analyzing, and interpreting clinical and immunological research data;
• performing translational laboratory research into immunological effects in blood and tumor biopsies.

You are a highly motivated and enthusiastic physician-researcher with:

Additionally, you enjoy taking on the challenge of a combination of clinical and laboratory research and patient care. You are also disciplined and able to work in a multidisciplinary environment.

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