Bioinformatics Scientist

Job Description:
Acerta Pharma is seeking a scientist to assist drug development by integrating proteomics, gene expression and genomics data generated from clinical trial specimens.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• This includes integration of data across multiple platforms, development of user interfaces and data mining methods that will allow for probing the data in multitude of ways.
• Data will derive from various technologies, which may include cell signaling profiling by phosphoflow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, Nanostring gene expression, ELISA, and next-gene sequencing.
• Deep biological characterization of tumor cell biology and sensitivity to various targeted agents will help identify pathways to target and elucidate why some patients develop effective clinical responses and others do not.
• The candidate would also maintain the computational infrastructure for large-scale studies.
• He/she would help develop and apply informatics and computational tools and would work in close collaboration with drug discovery and translational biology teams to capture hypothesis-driven endpoints.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of oncology, statistics, and software engineering is required.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Solid track record of using computational analysis to make biological discoveries
• Understand the fundamentals of oncology and cell biology
• Proficient with Python and working with relational databases
• Experience analyzing large data sets
• Experience building bioinformatics pipelines
• Experience with data mining and visualization tools, such as R, Spotfire and Tableau

Education/Training:

PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics or a related field, or equivalent experience

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be constructed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

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Requeriments :

• Doctorate Degree

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Cancer biology
• Cell Biology
• Data Mining
• genomic
• Programing in Python
• Programming in R
• Software Design
• Statistics

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:
Acerta Pharma is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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