Bioinformatics Scientist Jobs

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Title: Bioinformatics Scientist

Location: Nutley, NJ, 07110(Can be Remote)

Type: 12+ month

Pay Range --- $50 – $55 per hour

Description: Bioinformatics Scientist

Position Overview: Provide bioinformatics support on one or more project team(s) in translational science, and early/late phase cancer clinical trials, accountable for all biomarker data analysis aspects of project(s).

Major Duties and Responsibilities: The candidate will work on innovative oncology projects that combine human genetics, functional genomics, and statistical learning to uncover novel genetic and biological causes of safety endpoint and association with clinical outcome. In this role, the bioinformatics scientist provides technical support in terms of developing biomarker analysis plans and strategies, data analysis, output generation and interpretation of analysis results from early/late phase oncology clinical trials and external collaborations projects.

• Perform data analysis activities including cleaning, handling, integration, and analysis of biomarker data generated in clinical trials, including whole exome sequencing, RNA sequencing, proteomics, and other data types to identify biomarkers correlated with clinical and safety endpoints.

• Perform data analysis activities integrating internal and external multi-scale data generated from cell lines, model organisms, and human subjects, including genetic, genomic data, functional data, phenotypic data, and real-world data (RWD) to inform novel targets, combination strategies, or novel cancer indications for oncology assets that are currently under development.

• Perform analysis of current clinical oncology development landscape in pharmaceutical industry including drugs targets, genetic alterations of targets, drug development stages and status, and relevant oncogenic pathways, to inform future oncology R&D strategies

• Provide appropriate visualization and interpretation of results in preclinical and clinical data to support decision making on drug development projects.

• Contribute to clinical biomarker study design to generate statistically meaningful information.

• Prepare and track documentation including analysis plans, result reports, and progress reports.

• Generate and QC outputs for publications; review publication (abstract/manuscripts) to ensure accuracy, quality, and soundness of analysis methodologies.

Preferred Education/Experience:

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, cancer molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biostatistics, or closely related field. 2-3 years of post-graduate experience in hands-on cancer genomic data analysis.

• Strong programming skills and in-depth experience with several programming languages e.g., R and Python.

• Experience in large-scale data analysis, preferably genomic or next-generation sequencing (NGS), required

• Experience in biomarker and clinical outcome association analysis

• Extensive scientific understanding of cancer genetics and genomics

• Strong personal skills, and excellent organization and verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced and evolving field

• Excellent communication, presentations and writing

“We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide employment, compensation, and other benefits related to employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, gender, national or ethnic origin, disability, veteran status, age, genetic information, citizenship, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law.”