Assistant Professor – Bioinformatics

Job ID: 171909
Job date: 2017-05-26
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Company : UT Health Science 

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Role : Faculty 


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Job Description:
The Department of Neurosurgery at the UT Health McGovern Medical School invites applications for a tenure-track or non-tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. We seek outstanding applicants with strengths in bioinformatics and applied statistical genetics with a primary interest in analyses of next generation sequencing to understand human disease and differential response to therapeutics. Research studies may exploit familial, population-based, and extreme phenotyping data.

Additional Summary Specific to Job:

Current research in the department is diverse with focuses on neurovascular pathologies, brain cancer, regenerative medicine, cluster headaches, epilepsy, among other topics. Our faculty actively collaborates with researchers in various departments and schools across the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world.

Required Qualifications:

(1) Ph.D. in Human Genetics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, or associated discipline;

(2) knowledge of statistics and genetics;

(3) a record or potential for obtaining peer-reviewed funding and publications through independent and collaborative research in the area of specialization;

(4) excellent written and oral communication skills;

(5) ability to work independently combined with willingness to work in a highly interactive collegial group of faculty, surgeons, research scientists, investigators, educators and students.


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UTHealth is an EOE/AA employer. UTHealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law or university policy. EOE/M/F/Disabled/Vet.

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