Postdoctoral Resercher in bioinformatics for early diagnosis and prevention of cancer

Do you want to contribute to improving human health?

Our goal is to identify biomarkers and drug targets for early prediction and prevention of cancer. We use network tools to construct high-resolution models of malignant transformation based on multiomics data down to the spatial single-cell level and routine clinical data from individual patients. We call such models digital twins, which we analyze to find biomarkers and data process with thousands of medications to find the optimal treatment for the individual patient (see our website for details and publications: sdtc.se).

Your mission

As a postdoctoral fellow, your role is to contribute to the construction and analysis of digital twins, in close collaboration with other bioinformatics, network, AI, experimental and clinical researchers at Karolinska Institutet and collaborators at leading universities in the USA, UK and China, as well as industrial partners. This means that you can continuously develop your current bioinformatics skills and thereby have several different career paths after your post doc. The work environment is friendly, non-hierarchical and English-speaking. Work-life balance is a priority, including 5 weeks of vacation/year. Career planning, grant application training and leadership are offered. This has led to successful academic and industrial careers for several former PhD students and post docs.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor a phd or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish phd is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. It is considered as an advantage if you have completed your doctoral degree within the last three years, if there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

Requirements:

• PhD in computational biology, network science or bioinformatics relevant to our research
• Experience in data analysis and bioinformatics, with programming skills (preferably R, Python, Matlab or bash) and high-dimensional statistics
• Documented experience with multiomics analyzes down to the single-cell level
• Research that has resulted in publications in journals with impact >5
• Ability to interpret data in a biological context
• Familiarity with collaborating in a multidisciplinary research environment
• Proficient in English, oral and written

It is advantageous that you as a person have personal maturity, integrity and is creative with an ability to solve problems in an analytical way. You have good collaborative skills and can work in a structured way to achieve results. We attach great importance to personal qualities

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

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Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

• A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
• A complete list of publications
• A summary of current work (no more than one page)

Welcome to apply at the latest 3rd of January 2025.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

Permanent position is initiated by a six months trial period.

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