Research Assistant, 6 months employment

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics conducts research in epidemiology and biostatistics across a broad range of areas within biomedical science. The department is among the largest of its type in Europe and has especially strong research profiles in psychiatric, cancer, reproductive, pediatric, pharmaco, genetic, and geriatric epidemiology, eating disorders, precision medicine, and biostatistics.

Our department consists of researchers, doctoral students, biostatisticians, data collectors and database administrators as well as administrative personnel, in total some 270 staff.

Part of the success of our department is due to our collaborative spirit where one factor is that researchers at the Department share and co-finance common resources (e.g., IT and an applied biostatistics group). The department is situated at campus Solna. Further information can be found at http://ki.se/en/meb

We are looking for a research assistant who will contribute to the unit of cardiorenal epidemiology led by Prof Juan Jesus Carrero (https://staff.ki.se/people/juan-jesus-carrero). The main goal of research activities in his team is to improve our understanding on the use and effect of medications, devices and electronic clinical decision support systems in routine care settings, with a primary focus on kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.

Your mission

You will study unique data sources, including several Swedish Quality Registers and the Stockholm CREAtinine Measurements (SCREAM) project, a longitudinal administrative healthcare utilization cohort of >3 million residents of Stockholm with complete information on undertaken laboratory measurements. During this six-month employment, you will contribute to ongoing projects evaluating the care of people with cardiovascular disease not captured by Swedish quality registries, and of the adverse cardiovascular outcomes associated with kidney dysfunction.

Your profile

The ideal candidate should hold a degree/ master degree in statistics or biostatistics, and ideally previous experience in epidemiological research. Demonstrable advanced skills and expertise in R programming, STATA, or similar languages and ability to collaborate well within multi-disciplinary teams and independently are essential. The candidate needs good skills in English, both written and spoken. We attach great importance to personal qualities in this recruitment. As a person, you are social and able to interact and contribute within a team.

What do we offer?

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Choose to work at KI – Ten reasons why

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote a better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. And you get to practice freely in our modern wellness facilities, where trained staff are on site.

Location: Solna

Application

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.In this recruitment, you will apply with your CV without a personal letter. Instead, you will answer some questions about why you are applying for the job in the application form.

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