Postdoctoral Fellow

Tempus AI • Chicago, IL

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry? Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time. This Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to encourage and further the careers of postdoctoral fellows who are conducting cutting-edge clinical and genomic cancer research. Embedded within Tempus as an onsite researcher, the postdoctoral fellow will have direct access to over 300k de-identified samples with genomic and clinical data, a large organoid repository with genomic and pharmacological screening data, a huge computational environment, and mentorship and collaboration from clinicians, molecular biologists, and data scientists.

Requirements

• PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics or related field OR PhD and/or MD with extensive experience in clinical & translational cancer research
• Demonstrated record of innovative scientific accomplishments as evidenced by at least one first-author or co-first author key paper in a top journal
• Demonstrated ability to design and execute studies bridging molecular and clinical cancer data
• Enjoy working in a collaborative environment across departments
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Proficient in R, Python or other analytical programming language OR desire to acquire analytical skills and link with clinical/translational domain knowledge

Responsibilities

• Study and advance precision oncology using one of the world’s largest clinicogenomic databases.
• Apply computational methods to real-world patient data, comprising genomic, transcriptomic, histopathological, and/or clinical data, to improve our understanding of target cancers and advance the application of precision medicine to improve patient outcomes.
• Join a dynamic and collaborative computational biology group.
• Develop independent research projects tackling challenging problems in genomic-guided medicine.

Benefits

• incentive compensation
• restricted stock units
• medical and other benefits depending on the position

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree