Postdoctoral Associate- Genetic Epidemiology

Summary

The Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for postdoctoral research in systems epidemiology of cancer.

This is a 3-year flexible program with personalized educational curricula and individually tailored multidisciplinary teams of mentors with ongoing research in a variety of pediatric and adult cancers. The training provides epidemiology and bioinformatics fellows with the specialized skills to incorporate novel high-throughput technologies into large-scale collaborative epidemiology studies and to become successful, cross-trained researchers. Exciting opportunities also exist to work with faculty from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University and UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics.

Job Duties

• Analyzes large data sets.
• Analyzesnext generation sequencing data (e.g., RNA-seq, whole genome/ exome sequencing).
• Uses state-of-the-art bioinformatical and statistical tools.
• Develops new statistical methods to answer biological questions that arise in the research.
• Develops the ability to work in a team environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. epidemiologists or bioinformaticians or M.D.s/DVMs with related experience.
• Other qualifications include excellent writing skills in English.
• Prior experience with next generation sequencing data analysis is a plus.
• Knowledge in cancer biology or genetics is preferable.