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*KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Stockholm, Sweden POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS (Ref no: 278/2006) * ** The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics has openings for up to four post docs with interests in multidisciplinary training and research over a broad range of genetic-, cancer-, reproductive-, psychiatric and other areas of chronic disease epidemiology as well as e-epidemiology and biostatistics. We are looking for young, dedicated scholars, keen to integrate knowledge in epidemiologic theory, modern biology, IT tools and biostatistics, and to pursue cutting edge research. The positions are for 1-4 years. Presently employing some hundred sixty staff with eleven full professors and over 40 graduate students, the Department is one of the biggest epidemiology units in Europe. Unique Swedish resources and prerequisites - such as the Twin Register, several large prospective studies, ongoing nation wide case-control studies, large nation wide databases including the cancer register and in-patient discharge register, record linkage capabilities and access to clinical data as well as biologic material - are effectively explored at the Department. Further information can be found at http://www.meb.ki.se/ Please send a letter of application (marked with reference number 278/2006), the names and contact information of three references and a CV, and brief statement of research goals to e-mail address: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>_ or by mail to the departmental chair, Professor, Nancy Pedersen, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Box 281, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. To be eligible, applicants should have received their PhD between January 2002 and December 2006. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2006.