St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-posted 5 months ago
$104,000 - $186,160/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Memphis, TN
5,001-10,000 employees

St. Jude is seeking a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist for data science projects within the Center for Pharmacogenomics in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In particular, this individual will focus on electronic health record (EHR)-driven phenotyping to support pharmacogenomics discovery research. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing new informatics tools and resources to enhance phenotyping performance or enable deep phenotyping through terminology/ontology, natural language processing, and machine learning. The role involves working with large external biobank datasets such as All of US, eMERGE, TopMed, UK BioBank, as well internal EHR data. This Bioinformatics Research Scientist will collaborate extensively with disease and/or drug experts (clinicians, clinician scientists, data scientists, and laboratory investigators) to co-develop phenotyping algorithms but is expected to serve as the domain expert in high-throughput phenotyping. Demonstrated expertise in EHR-based phenotype extraction and curation are strongly preferred.

  • Provide research support and deliver high-quality results by formulating an efficient analytical approach with the available data.
  • Deliver data files, and document the analytical process.
  • May participate in manuscript preparation at project's conclusion.
  • Assist with establishing and documenting protocols or best practices for common research tasks, and in the formulation of analytical plans that use the best approach to address challenging data analysis questions.
  • Assist in the evaluation and testing of new methods and technologies.
  • Contribute ideas to automate or improve existing analysis methods.
  • Implement the improvement or work with others to do so.
  • Participate in the department's developmental projects and interdepartmental team projects.
  • Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.
  • Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
  • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of relevant post-degree work experience in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, statistics/computer science with a background in biological sciences or chemistry.
  • Master's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • PhD with 2+ years of relevant experience.
  • Significant experience in at least one programming or scripting language and at least one statistical package, with R preferred.
  • Exceptional resources and a supportive environment for career development.
  • Interaction with leaders in pharmacogenomics and data science.
  • Encouragement of innovation and independence.
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