Clinical Bioinformatician

Clinical Bioinformatician – UK, Slough – Initial 12-Month Contract – Life Sciences

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Bioinformatician for a fantastic 12 month contract based in Slough.

You will be supporting our client who are a global biopharmaceutical organisation committed to improving the lives of people afflicted with neurological and immunological disease.

This is a superb opportunity if you are looking to advance your experience in the field with a supportive and innovative company that will put you first.

What you’ll do:

• With minimal guidance of senior staff, processes, analyzes and interprets data from omics studies for assets in the clinical portfolio, to refine understanding of biological mechanisms, disease pathobiology, characterise treatment effect, safety signals and other relevant insights.
• Develops approaches, methods, analysis pipelines utilizing state-of-the-art tools and technologies to enable the above.
• Documents code, analyses and ensure reproducibility of results according to best practices suited to patient-level data
• Draft reports detailing methods and results that require minimal revision. Drafts / contributes to scientific publications that present the results of these analyses (conference abstracts/presentations and manuscripts).

What you’ll  need:

• Master/PhD with extensive experience, preferably with industry experience.
• Expertise in pre-processing, integration and analysis of different omics data types, in particular extensive experience analysing large bulk and single-cell RNAseq datasets from complex studies, and experience deriving relevant biological insights from these. Experience with spatial data, epigenomics and proteomics is an advantage.
• Expertise in the development and application of methods pertinent for functional interpretation of omics data e.g. pathway enrichment, functional module detection, causal reasoning.
• Experience analyzing and deriving insights using large omics datasets from clinical trials and relating omics data results to clinical variables is a plus.

If this assignment is of interest to you, please apply now!

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