Postdoc – Researchers / Data scientists, EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany (2015)

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the highest ranked scientific research organisations in the world. The Headquarters Laboratory is located in Heidelberg (Germany), with additional sites in Grenoble (France), Hamburg (Germany), Hinxton (UK) and Monterotondo (Italy).

The National Center of Tumor Disease (NCT) is a joint Comprehensive Cancer Centre of the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Centre (dkfz) aimed at providing world class translational cancer research and cancer care.

SOUND is an international research project funded by the European Commission (EC) within its Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme “Personalizing Health and Care”. Its objective is to create the bioinformatic tools for statistically informed use of personal genomes and levels other ‘omic data (multi-omics) in medicine, including cancers and rare metabolic diseases. It comprises partners from top research institutions including Cambridge, Munich, Zurich, Seattle, Heidelberg and Lisbon, and will run from September 2016 for 3 years.

SMART is a precision oncology initiative for blood cancer, lead by the (NCT), which uses innovative large-scale ex-vivo drug response phenotyping approaches of primary (patient) tumours together with comprehensive multi-omic characterization for personalized and stratified treatment design.

EMBL Heidelberg and NCT are looking for two postdoctoral researchers to join the groups of Wolfgang Huber at EMBL (P1) and Thorsten Zenz at NCT (P2). They will develop statistical and computational methods for the integrative analysis of these phenotypic, genetic and multi-omic data types, including advanced new phenotyping assays (e.g. high-throughput microscopy) and mine these data for biological discovery and medical utilization. The positions are set at the cutting edge of scientific research related to mechanisms of disease, personalized medicine, genome bioinformatics and statistics, and its clinical translation.

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