RESPONSIBILITIES

Several Ph. D. and Master student fellowship positions in bioinformatics, computational biology and molecular biology are available in the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Graduate program at the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. The students will work on one of the following projects: Integrative analysis of high-throughput "omics" data, including next- (NGS) and third-generation sequencing, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epigenomics, metabolomics and metagenomics data as well as medical record data and identify diagnostic, predictive and prognosis biomarkers for cancer, development of novel methods to process NGS data, and construction of data bases to manage biomedical data. The students who work in the wet lab will mainly discover novel biomarkers utilizing high-throughput "omics methods" such as NGS, proteomics and metabolomics using cancer liquid and tissue samples, validate the findings from bioinformatics application results, and further understand their mechanisms.

REQUIREMENTS

The qualified applicants should hold a Bachelor or Master degree in any biology and (or) computer/statistics related majors. For bioinformatics and computational biology program, students with both biology and computer/statistics related backgrounds are preferred, but not required. For molecular biology program, computer/statistics background is not required.

COMPENSATION

Tuition will be fully waived and competitive stipend will be offered for good students.

HOW TO APPLY

If interested, please send your resume with names of three referees to:

Youping Deng, PhD
Professor
Director of Bioinformatics Core
University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Biosciences Building, Suite 325B
651 Ilalo Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Email: dengy[at]hawaii.edu

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