Job ID: 8934
Job date: 2017-11-16
End Date:
Company : Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Country : Role : Other
Job date: 2017-11-16
End Date:
Company : Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Country : Role : Other
Job Description:
We seek an enthusiastic and highly motivated bioinformatics associate to join our cancer genomics research group. This individual will join oncologists, computational biologists and research scientists on a new effort aimed at studying the relationships between cancer causing genomic alterations and clinical outcome. This position will provide ample opportunities for professional development and the acquisition of cutting-edge skills in basic and translational cancer genomics research, research planning and strategy, and data analysis and interpretation. Responsibilities: This individual will analyze cancer genomic data generated at Dana Farber using software tools within our team and by generating their own statistical analysis code. This individual will collaborate with oncologists, computational biologists and research scientist to study alterations in patients’ somatic genomes in order to assist in finding new cancer treatments and cures.
Additional Info:
Overview: Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
We seek an enthusiastic and highly motivated bioinformatics associate to join our cancer genomics research group. This individual will join oncologists, computational biologists and research scientists on a new effort aimed at studying the relationships between cancer causing genomic alterations and clinical outcome. This position will provide ample opportunities for professional development and the acquisition of cutting-edge skills in basic and translational cancer genomics research, research planning and strategy, and data analysis and interpretation. Responsibilities: This individual will analyze cancer genomic data generated at Dana Farber using software tools within our team and by generating their own statistical analysis code. This individual will collaborate with oncologists, computational biologists and research scientist to study alterations in patients’ somatic genomes in order to assist in finding new cancer treatments and cures.
- Works in teams with oncologists, research scientist and molecular biologists to define and execute computational approaches.
- Performs computational analysis of next generation sequencing data, somatic copy number alterations, expression profiling, and biological pathways using in house algorithms.
- Generates own code to conduct various other statistical analyses including those to discover relationships between cancer alterations and clinical correlates.
- Presents data at project team meetings.
- Assists in generating wikis and data portals to disseminate results to the DFCI and general scientific community.
- Assists in drafting of scientific manuscripts.
- This employee will be located at both the Dana-Farber Longwood Medical Area compus and at the Broad Institute in Cambridge.
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Cancer Genomics
- Cloud Computing
- Lunix/Unix
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programming in Matlab
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
Overview: Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]