Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics

Thomas University Philadelphia, PA
Center City Campus

The Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Cancer Biology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health invite applications for a full-time, non-tenure track faculty member, with expertise in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics. The faculty member will function as a part of the SKCC Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Research Informatics Shared Resource. The expected faculty rank for this position will be Assistant Professor, and the salary will be commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.

The University provides substantial continual support of salary to encourage independent and collaborative research, contributions to extramural grant applications, and some teaching. The Division is committed to diversity and applications from women and minority candidates are encouraged.

This new position will develop processes and strategies to ensure state-of-the-art analysis of data generated by SKCC’s Genomics Shared Resource and other high-throughput data from experiments produced by Jefferson labs. The position will give the faculty the opportunity to collaborate with clinicians and basic science researchers and spearhead analytic pipelines and shared resource workflows.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Review and maintain SOPs for bioinformatics analyses and method/pipeline developments.
• Alignment and interaction with the Biostatistics and Research Informatics groups
• Interacting with clinical, translational, and basic science investigators in the design and analysis of experiments involving Bioinformatics data.
• Assisting in the preparation of grants, protocols, reports, and manuscripts through providing bioinformatic-specific expertise.
• Maintaining and documenting project requests, analyses, and other metrics.
• Troubleshooting issues across projects, providing feedback and areas for improvement.
• Contributing to bioinformatics training efforts for the university and SKCC.
• Mentoring new staff.

Qualifications

PhD required with at least three years of experience in an interdisciplinary, data-driven field that emphasizes Computational Biology, Biological Data Science, machine and deep learning of biological data, or other quantitative fields. Experience with whole-exome, whole-genome, and DNA methylation data analysis pipelines also required. Expertise in machine learning and deep learning modeling of genomics, algorithm and method development, database/web-server development, or analysis of pharmacogenomics data preferred.

The successful applicant will have outstanding communication skills and the ability to interact and impart complex bioinformatic information clearly to an audience with varying backgrounds.

Interested candidates should submit:

1. a cover letter that describes their interest in and qualifications for the position, and
2. the names and contact information for three references to:
   Ramkrishna Mitra, PhD
   Ramkrishna.Mitra@jefferson.edu
   Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
   Thomas Jefferson University,
   130 S. Ninth Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Please submit an on-line application/CV at:
Jefferson Human Resources  (Job ID # 9299032)

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second-largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

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As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.