Research Fellow, Bioinformatics [LKCMedicine]

The Centre for Biomedical Informatics at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine seeks to be the one stop data management and analytical hub of the medicinal school and is seeking a Research Fellow in the area of Bioinformatics to fulfil that vision. The candidate will help drive collaborations with various research groups and initiatives within the school by delivering high quality computational analyses for a wide spectrum of biological data. The candidate will also engage in the management of research data as well as training activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Communication with researchers to understand biological problems

• Translate the biological problems to actionable computational analysis plans

• Execution of analysis plans and its subsequent interpretation

• Generate analysis reports and communicate them to researchers

• Management of the collaboration research data to ensure compliance to data policies

• Facilitate the development of the centre infrastructure

• Development of computational methods and systems in support of the research activities

• Organization and instruction of training programs to staff and students in the area of bioinformatics

• Survey, evaluation and report of current computational methodologies to ensure methods employed are up to date, relevant and best in class

Key Requirements

• A PhD in Bioinformatics or similar field

• Experience with working with biological data

• Good communication skills to communicate with life science/medical researchers to understand biological problems and communicate analytical results

• Customer focused approach to collaboration

• Ability to translate biological problems to computational problems

• Ability to code in a programming language to solve computational problems

• Awareness of computational infrastructure and its upkeep

• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and set priorities

• Willingness to provide training to staff and students in the area of bioinformatics

• Keen interest in the field of bioinformatics and willingness to try new methods and improve on existing ones

Hiring Institution: LKC