Summary

The Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for postdoctoral research in systems epidemiology of cancer. This is a 3-year flexible program with personalized educational curricula and individually tailored multidisciplinary teams of mentors with ongoing research in a variety of pediatric and adult cancers. The training provides epidemiology and bioinformatics fellows with the specialized skills to incorporate novel high-throughput technologies into large-scale collaborative epidemiology studies and to become successful, cross-trained researchers. Exciting opportunities also exist to work with faculty from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University and UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics.

Job Duties

• Assists with the production of routine financial reports and documents.  
• Assists with processing labor distribution, budget and expense reports, and other financial documents in SAP and Concur. 
• Analyzes large data sets. 
• Analyzes next generation sequencing data (e.g., RNS-seq, whole genome/exome sequencing). 
• Uses state-of-the-art bioinformatical and statistical tools. 
• Develops new statistical methods to answer biological questions that arise in the research.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or Ph.D. in Basic Science, Health Science, or a related field.
• No experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Epidemiology or Bioinformatics.  
• Excellence writing skills in English. 
• Experience with next generation sequencing data analysis is a plus. 
• Knowledge in cancer biology or genetics is preferable.