Duration: Length of the assignment: 3 months
M-F, 9-5 (flexible)
- The Genomic Research Center Computational Oncology group (GRC-CO) is seeking a highly motivated computational biologist/bioinformatics scientist to play an integral role in a multi-disciplinary team focused on developing new therapies for the treatment of cancer. GRC is a center of excellence for bioinformatics, functional genomics, human genetics, and genomic medicine.
- The GRC works across all R&D as well as other areas such as process sciences and corporate strategy.
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment to contribute to oncology discovery and clinical development programs (including therapies based on antibody-drug conjugates, small molecule inhibitors, protein degraders, etc.).
- They will be responsible for formulating scientific questions into coherent analytical efforts, developing rigorous statistical modeling and bioinformatics methods, integrating large scale multi-modal datasets to derive quantitative biological insights, and communicating scientific findings to project teams.
Top 5 skills/requirements this person is required - Required Skill 1: NGS analysis (RNAseq, WES, CRISPR screen etc.)
- Required Skill 2: R and python
- Required Skill 3: experience with HPC clusters, cloud compute, docker containers/apptainers or similar
- Required Skill 4: data visualization (ggplot2, plotly, etc.)
- Required Skill 5: good communication skills
Years of experience, education, and/or certification is required - PhD. Degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, genomics, cancer biology, immunology, or a related field.
- Master’s degree with typically 3-5 years of experience.
- Bachelor’s degree with typically 6-8 years of experience.
Nice to have (but not required) - oncology background, especially in cancer biology, tumor dependencies, signaling pathways
- Predictive modeling, machine learning, statistics
- Rshiny, data visualization dashboard development
- Version control, github, shell
- Strong publication record
- Support of programs in early to late stage discovery drug pipeline.
- Prior research work in oncology bioinformatics analysis, either in academia or industry
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