PhD Scholarships in Computational Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland (2015-2016)

The Computational Medicine Research Team invites motivated individuals to apply for two doctoral student positions at the Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland. The positions are focused on population-based stratification of individual cardiovascular risk via multi-omics approaches.

These positions and the work to be done are part of our larger endeavours aiming to improve cardiovascular risk assessment by conducting high-throughput metabolomics profiling of extensive population cohorts at unprecedented sample-sizes. The population-scale of the project will allow us to go beyond biomarker discovery. We anticipate that the biological complexity and heterogeneity of atherosclerotic processes call for individual molecular tailoring of the CVD risk assessment to truly improve the clinical evaluations. Our work is pioneering in its application of comprehensive systemic metabolic profiling in hundreds of thousands of individuals. The large numbers are a prerequisite for statistically sound metabolic stratifications as well as for understanding the (patho)physiological function of the new disease biomarkers and the causal pathways in disease aetiology with the aid of modern genetic data.

One position is focused more on the epidemiological and metabolic or the analytical side of the project (led by Prof Mika Ala-Korpela) and the other more on the genetic aspects of the project (led by Dr Johannes Kettunen).

We expect you to have a Master’s degree in Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Medical Sciences, Statistics, or in other related area. You need to have good skills in written and spoken English.

Further details:
http://www.nature.com