Research Fellow in Bioinformatics

Contract kind: Full time, 35hrs per week (OR Half time – negotiable)
Fastened Time period accessible from September 2023 to twenty-eight February 2025

Location: Wellcome Sanger Institute (Secondment) Cambridge – recruitment going down by means of the College of Edinburgh however in a singular alternative you can be seconded and work in individual at Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

The Centre for World Well being on the Usher Institute inside The College of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Sanger Institute are in search of an enthusiastic and excellent postdoctoral researcher to hitch a collaborative analysis staff engaged on the bioinformatics of pathogen genomes.  

Please observe the profitable candidate will obtain a secondment throughout this publish and work in individual at Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

The Alternative:

That is an thrilling alternative for an excellent candidate to hitch our staff engaged on the Wellcome-funded IVOR (Impression of Vaccines on Resistance) undertaking. The postholder will use a singular dataset from a multi-year cluster-randomised vaccine trial in Vietnam to grasp the epidemiology of drug resistant pneumococcal carriage in youngsters. The Analysis Fellow will lead the bioinformatics evaluation for the drug resistance endpoints of the trial. The place affords distinctive alternatives for methodological developments in addition to public well being impression within the precedence space of antimicrobial resistance.

Candidates are inspired to contact Dr Katie Atkins (Katherine.Atkins@ed.ac.uk ) for casual enquiries.

Your abilities and attributes for achievement: 

• PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics or a associated computational or quantitative self-discipline
• Confirmed potential to make use of a coding language to resolve issues (e.g. R, Python, C++ and so forth)
• Proof of potential to independently develop and ship top quality analysis
• Proof of potential to speak complicated data clearly, orally and in writing