BACKGROUND

A dedication to something greater.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has established itself as one of the nation's most respected scientific and healthcare centers. Annually ranked as one of the top medical centers in the US. Cedars-Sinai consistently ranks at the top in Los Angeles at integrating science, technology and healthcare. After all, the same dedication, passion and technical skills that make for an extraordinary artist define the exceptional professionals who choose to establish their careers with us. If you are committed to working at the leading edge of medical discovery, we invite you to practice your craft within our world-class clinical research organization.

We're seeking a strong collaborator and communicator with a Master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Genetics or a related field (PhD preferred). Preference will be given to those with experience in development and deployment of bioinformatic pipelines for Sequencing analysis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be working in the Genomics core as a part of an integrated of a team of wet lab and informatic scientists. Your main responsibility will be to manipulate large datasets from microarray and sequencing data and perform tests to determine biological significance. This is a very dynamic and independent position where you will basic analysis tools to determine things like genetic linkage, gene expression profiles, and molecular classifiers from data generated from microarrays, qPCR data, and Next Gen Sequencing. One of your main responsibilities will be to continually research and develop new pipelines for filtering and analyzing these large datasets especially for new Next Generation Sequencing applications. You will also assist the Core Directors personal research or collaborative lead research, which may include some basic molecular tasks specific to the research projects in addition to custom analysis. You will also be responsible educating basic bioinformatics workflows to customers.

REQUIREMENTS

We're seeking a strong collaborator and communicator with a Master's degree in Biostatistics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Genetics or a related field (PhD preferred). Preference will be given to those with experience in development and deployment of bioinformatic pipelines for Sequencing analysis.The position does require expertise in correlating molecular and clinical measures, and in applying algorithms for classifying samples by molecular and statistical measures. Knowledge of one scripting language (Perl, python, Java), Unix/Linux Programming, SGE, R/Bioconductor and all major publicly annotated databases (Ensembl, NCBI, UCSC, etc.) is required. Strong organizational skills required.

LOCALE

Los Angeles, CA 90048

COMPENSATION

Competitive

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply on-line at: https://www.cedars-sinaimedicalcenter.apply2jobs.com and reference Job #5966 you may also send your CV to robert.drust[at]cshs.org.

DEADLINE

N/A

POLICY

Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace.