I would like to bring to the attention of potential candidates the
following job description for a new position at the AMC. Interested
people are invited to address enquiries to the (email) addresses given
below, not to me.

Best wishes, 

Bart Mertens





ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

The Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam (The 
Netherlands) Department of Human Retrovirology has a vacancy for a
post-doc 
(full-time) in 

Applied mathematics / Bio-statistics.

He /she will be involved in the mathematical modelling of the dynamics
of the 
infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative
agent of 
AIDS. In combination with modelling of the kinetics of the immune
response to 
HIV, attempts to describe and analyse the pathogenesis of the
HIV-infection as 
well as the effects of treatment of the infection are made. Specific
focus of 
research is the development and dynamics of HIV that becomes resistant
to 
anti-HIV drugs. Clinical and virological data obtained from HIV-infected

patients followed prospectively for a period of more than 12 years as
well as 
from protocolised clinical trials with combinations of anti-HIV drugs
are used 
in analyses.

The Department of Human Retrovirology (head: Professor Jaap Goudsmit) 
encompasses a group of medical doctors, biochemists and biologists
involved in 
clinical and experimental virological research on HIV and AIDS. The
Department 
recently started a small research group of 3 persons that is involved in
a more 
thorough analysis of experimentally obtained data aiming at a better 
understanding of underlying mechanisms of the HIV-infection and
HIV-related 
disease, as well as the effects of interventions in the infection. This
group is 
key in the collaboration between the Department and the group of
Professor Roy 
Anderson of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious
Disease 
at the University of Oxford (UK). 

He/she has a PhD in applied mathematics or bio-statistics, is proficient
in the 
use of a statistical language like S-plus and skilled in C or Fortran.
Knowledge 
of biology or willingness to acquire knowledge on virus infections is 
appreciated.
For statistical support the post-doc collaborates with the Department of

Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the Academic Medical Centre
of the 
University of Amsterdam.

Salary: Depending on age and (working) experience between Dutch guilders
4948 
(USD 2470) and 5929 (USD 2965) per month.

Period: 1 year with an extension to three years.

Address:
Department of Human Retrovirology
AMC, University of Amsterdam
Meibergdreef 15
1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Information:
Frank de Wolf / Department of Human Retrovirology / 
Tel: +31 20 5667004
Fax: +31 20 6916531
e-mail [log in to unmask]
Simon Heisterkamp / Department of Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics/
Tel: +31 20 5668520
Fax: +31 20 6912683
e-mail: [log in to unmask]


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