Principal Biostatistician in Immune Tolerance Network. Position located in Bethesda, MD

Duties & Responsibilities: Working closely with clinicians, statisticians, biologists and bioinformaticans, the incumbent will provide statistical consultancy and guidance in experimental design and approaches to analyzing data to the functional areas of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN). The incumbent will contribute to the development of novel methods, as well as the application of these and existing methods, to solve complex problems in genomics, proteomics and statistical genetics. An initial area of focus will be gene expression analysis.

Position Qualifications: Required qualifications for this position include a PhD with 3+ year’s experience in Statistics, Mathematics, or related field; knowledge of advanced statistical methods; solid background and experience using statistical approaches to analyze large data sets; experience with parametric and non-parametric tests; and understanding of supervised and unsupervised clustering algorithms. Experience in early phase/exploratory development in the pharmaceutical industry is a plus. Knowledge of microarray technology is helpful. The incumbent must have the ability to clearly communicate ideas and results of analyses with researchers of various backgrounds, the ability to work well in a team environment, excellent organizational and computer skills, and excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Benefits: Contractor or Temp to Perm with full time slot opening in May 2014 affiliated with Massachusetts general hospital/Harvard

Web Site: http://www.immunetolerance.org/

Application Address: Adam Asare, PhD Sr Director, Bioinformatics Immune Tolerance Network 3 Bethesda Metro Center • Bethesda, MD 20814 Tel: 240.235.6149 • Fax: 240.235.6198 • aasare@immunetolerance.org

Contact Email: aasare@immunetolerance.org


Company Information: The Collaborative Network for Clinical Research on Immune Tolerance (Immune Tolerance Network - ITN) is an NIH funded initiative to facilitate the advancement of immune tolerance induction in human clinical practice, towards the development of new and improved treatment and monitoring protocols in transplantation, autoimmune disease, and asthma and allergic diseases. The ITN combines the expertise of over 70 scientists and clinicians from fifty institutions in the US and abroad in conducting Phase I/II clinical trials in these areas. With more than $20 million dollars in funding per year, the ITN is responsible for all aspects of the implementation of the clinical trials and mechanistic studies. Position located in Bethesda, MD


Application Deadline: 02/05/2014 (mm/dd/yyyy)