Senior Biostatistician (Bioinformatician/Computational Biologist)

🔍 School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States

📁: Research

📅   : Oct 04, 2019 Post Date

📅   : 77880 Requisition #

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REQUIRED:

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Biostatistics, or related field
Capable of functioning independently and collaboratively at an advanced level under the overall direction of the faculty lead
Experience with programming languages in computational biology and biostatistics such as R (preferred), Python, Perl, Matlab, etc., in Unix environments
Experience with low level data processing and cleaning for high-throughput data (e.g. QC, alignment, deduplication of NGS data)
Knowledge of experimental design for generating high-throughput data such as next generation sequencing data (RNA-seq, DNA-seq, exome-seq, ATAC-seq), and proteomic data (especially luminex assays and CyTOF)
Knowledge and experience of analysis of high-dimensional genomic/proteomic data such as next generation sequencing data (RNA-seq, DNA-seq, exome-seq, ATAC-seq), and proteomic data (e.g. luminex assays and CyTOF)
Background in machine learning, data mining, statistical learning methods applied to molecular data (such as random forests, sparse regression); particularly in the context of biomarker discovery
Outstanding oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical information to all audiences

DESIRED:

At least two years of experience collaborating with clinical and experimental scientists
Understanding of, and experience with, statistical analysis of clinical trial outcomes (in particular right-censored outcomes in the context of molecular predictors)
Experience supervising technical staff including training, mentoring and coaching
Experience developing grant proposals.

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