Computational Biologist

ErasMS is the MS Center of the Erasmus MC and is one of the three national academic referral centers for providing medical care and advice to people with MS and other inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system. Within ErasMS, our mission is to understand MS across the lifespan, enabling us to prevent and cure this disease. We prospectively follow cohorts of patients with for example pediatric demyelinating disease, relapsing or progressive MS, and NMO-SD/MOG-AD. We aim to find new biological determinants of disease outcomes. To achieve this task, we are continuously collecting clinical, radiological, genetic, virological and immunological data from our different cohorts for now more than 15 years at the Departments of Neurology and Immunology, also in collaboration with the Departments of Viroscience and Clinical Genetics at the Erasmus MC. Our center is a member of multiple international MS consortia using big data (e.g. International MS Genetics Consortium `IMSGC', EU-Health program `BEHIND-MS' and federated learning MS platform `INTONATE').

The Department of Immunology performs cutting-edge basic and translational research on different immune-related disorders, including immunodeficiencies, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders and cancer. It participates in patient care by performing laboratory diagnostics (Laboratory for Medical Immunology), supports Clinical Immunology and has an international environment with employees and students from many countries.

As bioinformatician of MS center ErasMS, you will be part of the NeuroImmunology Brain (NIB) research group (Department of Immunology), which is a dynamic team of enthusiastic researchers (3 postdocs, 3 PhD students, 2 technicians) who collaborate with neurologists (in training) across highly translational and complementary projects. Furthermore, you will share your experience and discuss results with the Computational and Bioinformatics research group of Dr. ir. Harmen van de Werken (Department of Immunology).