Job ID: 532671706
Job date: 2018-02-07
End Date:
Company : Adaptimmune Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-02-07
End Date:
Company : Adaptimmune Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
The Senior Informatician will provide expert guidance and support the planning and execution of computational research and bioinformatics projects, strengthen cross-functional matrix ways of working, and drive the strategic advancement of our Research Data Science capabilities. This role will operate from a central group orientation and is intended to make significant contributions in elevating our computational-bioinformatic-scientific team-work, process and methods, life-cycle and tools for understanding biological data. The Sr. Informatician will establish centralized goals and objectives for Research bioinformatics staff in partnership with Research line managers to advance common ways of working and drive overall effectiveness to achieve outcomes. Key responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Adaptimmune, a leader in T-cell therapy, is a multinational, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel immunotherapies using its proprietary SPEAR T-cell receptor platform to treat solid tumors, which has the potential to transform the treatment of cancer. Our proprietary SPEAR T-cell platform has generated a strong pipeline of affinity-enhanced T-cell therapies, with multiple INDs open. We use these therapies to harness the body's own immune system to find and destroy diseased cells. Our SPEAR TCR therapies offer promise to patients that often have no other options. We are working hard to make that promise a reality. We are based in the UK, in Oxford, and in the US, in Philadelphia. For more information about Adaptimmune, please visit www.adaptimmune.com. If interested in joining our fast growing team, click on the careers tab of this page.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
The Senior Informatician will provide expert guidance and support the planning and execution of computational research and bioinformatics projects, strengthen cross-functional matrix ways of working, and drive the strategic advancement of our Research Data Science capabilities. This role will operate from a central group orientation and is intended to make significant contributions in elevating our computational-bioinformatic-scientific team-work, process and methods, life-cycle and tools for understanding biological data. The Sr. Informatician will establish centralized goals and objectives for Research bioinformatics staff in partnership with Research line managers to advance common ways of working and drive overall effectiveness to achieve outcomes. Key responsibilities:
- Provide scientific computing wisdom, expertise and guidance to computational researchers and bioinformaticians, scientists, and line leaders in the plan, design, execution and interpretation of biologic data
- Through a scientific computing lens, lead the computational-bioinformatic evaluation, implementation and roll-out of enterprise tools, data sources, best practices, methods, life-cycle approaches, and TBD advanced solutions to elevate our bioinformatic analytic capabilities (people, process and technology)
- Hands-on execute any bioinformatic projects in support of broad Research goals, as assigned
- Masters degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Information Technology or related field or equivalent postgraduate experience, preferably in a laboratory science environment
- Extended experience in Next Generation Sequencing-RNA seq data analysis and other bioinformatics tools
- Expert in single and multi-mode deep biologic data analysis and interpretation
- Able to proactively seek collaborations with scientists and lab heads
- Strong influencing skills, and desire to effect positive change across several functions
- Expertise in algorithmic implementation, statistical programming and multi-mode data manipulation
- Familiar with specialized commercial and open source data visualization and analysis tools
- Solid understanding of bioinformatics-computational experimental design
- Deep knowledge of cancer genomic data sources and data integration-interpretation tools.
- Demonstrated ability to derive molecular signatures of drug response, such as the application of machine learning techniques to drug response and multi-omics datasets
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Adaptimmune, a leader in T-cell therapy, is a multinational, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel immunotherapies using its proprietary SPEAR T-cell receptor platform to treat solid tumors, which has the potential to transform the treatment of cancer. Our proprietary SPEAR T-cell platform has generated a strong pipeline of affinity-enhanced T-cell therapies, with multiple INDs open. We use these therapies to harness the body's own immune system to find and destroy diseased cells. Our SPEAR TCR therapies offer promise to patients that often have no other options. We are working hard to make that promise a reality. We are based in the UK, in Oxford, and in the US, in Philadelphia. For more information about Adaptimmune, please visit www.adaptimmune.com. If interested in joining our fast growing team, click on the careers tab of this page.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]