Statistician (Research Associate/Senior Research Associate)
JDRF/WELLCOME TRUST DIABETES AND INFLAMMATION LABORATORY
The JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory (DIL;
https://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/ ) has been at the forefront of recent
international success in discovering the genetic variants associated
with type 1 diabetes and their function. We are now working to
understand the mechanism through which genetic variation can influence
disease risk both through studies of healthy individuals who carry
genetic susceptibility variants and within the context of intervention
trials with individuals with new onset diabetes.
We require an experienced statistician with an established track record
to join our statistics group
(https://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/staff/dilstats/ ), which is a friendly
group of Bayesians and frequentists who analyse a diverse range of low
and high dimensional data, including flow cytometric, gene expression,
genotype and sequencing data. Our challenge is to integrate analyses of
these data to address the research aims of the DIL. The DIL is located
in the Cambridge Biomedical Reasearch Campus and we are building strong
collaborative links with the MRC Biostatistics Unit
(http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/ ) under its recently appointed director,
Professor Sylvia Richardson.
The ideal candidate will have a PhD in statistics or a closely related
discipline, several years postdoctoral experience, excellent statistical
programming skills, and an ability to communicate and present results
both to other statisticians and scientists. She or he will be expected
to have some supervisory responsibility for the more junior post docs in
our group. Knowledge of genetics or type 1 diabetes is less important
than an interest in applying the innovative statistics we have found
necessary when dealing with data generated by rapidly developing
technologies, in order to answer questions of importance to biology and
health.
Senior Research Associate status may be available for suitable
candidates subject to Faculty Board approval.
Further information and an application form can be found at
https://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/jobs/statistician-2013-02-15.shtml
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