Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist

1 week ago


Randwick, New South Wales, Australia Children's Cancer Institute Full time

About Us

The Children's Cancer Institute is a leading medical research institute in Australia dedicated to researching childhood cancer causes, prevention, and treatments.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Bioinformatics Research Officer to join our team.

Job Description

This role involves developing computational approaches for liquid biopsy assays, including modular analysis pipelines and algorithms for personalized assays.

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving change and implementing novel approaches in precision cancer genomic medicine, circulating tumour DNA analysis, and single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in these areas and be motivated to produce high-quality outcomes in pursuit of translational and clinical excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Develop analytical approaches to study circulating tumour DNA
  • Develop analytical approaches to study circulating tumour cells (CTCs)
  • Drive innovative computational research into tumour evolution and cellular heterogeneity
  • Develop new and improved models of disease stratification and risk prediction on the basis of longitudinal liquid biopsy data
  • Support the computational biology and liquid biopsy groups and collaborations with paper writing, and grant writing
  • Interact with members of the precision medicine curation team to translate this research into clinical practice

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills Required

  • PhD in computational biology, genomics, or related field
  • Highly developed skills in bioinformatics and genomics, with a minimum of 8 years experience
  • High-level proficiency in bash, R, and python
  • Strong demonstrated expertise working with multiple next generation sequencing methods, including single cell analysis

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 - $160,000 AUD per year.

Benefits

  • FlexBEST program with true flexibility from day 1
  • 9-day working fortnight option
  • Employee wellbeing initiatives, including EAP program and gifted wellbeing days off (paid) per year
  • Investment in leadership development and career advancement opportunities
  • 13 weeks paid parental leave on top of any government funded paid parental leave


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