Research Associate in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Salary: £31,604-£38,833
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
Reference: PR14329
The Milner Therapeutics Institute is part of the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge and is dedicated to the conversion of ground breaking science into therapies. It is currently based at the Gurdon Institute and will move into new purpose built drug discovery laboratories on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in September 2018. The Institute is surrounded by a global therapeutic alliance of 65 SMEs, pharma companies, academic institutions and venture capital firms. The computational biology research group at the Milner Institute will develop cutting-edge bioinformatics technology and apply new computational methods to identify new or better therapies from the analysis of biological data across therapeutic areas.
We are now seeking to recruit a Research Associate to develop new computational tools to analyse omics data and validate potential drug targets at the Milner Therapeutics Institute. The role holder will be responsible for integrating and harmonising relevant public and private data, interactome analyses of molecular pathways of interest and development of a computational pipeline to identify drug positioning opportunities.
Applicants must have a PhD and postdoctoral experience in bioinformatics, statistics or a related scientific discipline and must have demonstrated world-leading expertise through published research in internationally recognized journals. For more details on the Person Profile for this post please refer to the Further Information document.
Limited funding: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.
Location: At least two days per week will be at local partner institutions (LifeArc in Stevenage and the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton).
To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit:
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/16120/
Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr Kathryn Chapman, Executive Manager of the Milner Therapeutics Institute at Kathryn.Chapman@milner.cam.ac.uk or https://www.milner.cam.ac.uk/
Please quote reference PR14329 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity. The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. Benefits include generous maternity/paternity leave, flexible working, funds for returning carers and other family-friendly schemes.
The Gurdon Institute is committed to equality and diversity in the workplace, for more information go to https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/about/athenaswan
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