Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)
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.
- Analyzes next 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.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
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