Associate Director - Discovery Bioinformatics
 

BioTalent is excited to partner with a leading precision oncology company located in the Boston area. This company is utilizing it's proprietary platform to systematically discover highly targeted cancer therapies. A unique opportunity to join a rapid growth - publicly traded biotech.

You Will:

• Be an Internal thought leader on biomarker identification based on drug response experiments
• Design, implement and improve analytical approaches for target and biomarker identification based on cell line response to drug treatment
• Collaborate with and support target discovery and translational teams in the design of experiments and analysis of genomic datasets
• Lead the interactions with internal and external teams to develop and implement a state-of-the-art computational analysis platform for omics-based oncology biomarker discovery
• Develop and apply computational, statistical, and machine learning methods to mine multi-dimensional genome-scale data sets and derive biological insights
• Execute integrative analyses of cancer omics, clinical information and functional genomic data to support prioritization of targets and stratification of patients

Experience & Qualifications:

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, System Biology, or related fields
• Six years or more of post-doctoral academic bioinformatics experience in oncology target discovery, oncology translational sciences, or oncology clinical genomics
• Experience with cancer biology and cancer genomics
• Experience with DNA Damage and Repair pathways is desirable
• Analysis of large cell line panel data such as CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screens
• Familiarity with large genomic datasets such as the Cancer Dependency Map, The Cancer Genome Atlas, Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx)
• Experience working cross functionally amongst other departments

For more information about this opportunity, please apply to the role directly or send an email to caleb.clarkson@biotalent.com.