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    Research Bioinformatician II - Los Angeles, United States - Cedars-Sinai

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    Job Description

    As a Research Bioinformatician II, you will join the research team at the Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention directed by Dr. Sumeet Chugh and located within the Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute. The overall goal of this Center is to predict and prevent sudden cardiac arrest, a mostly lethal condition. You will perform general bioinformatics analysis and provides software support for projects, and interacts with investigators to identify research problems and find appropriate software tools. Will manage and analyze clinical data as well as omics data including loading and querying data from the Center's database , and transform and merge multilevel data into user-friendly formats. You will provide bioinformatics data analysis, preliminary interpretation of the data, and reports of the results for possible publications. Work with bioinformatics faculties to determine future bioinformatics needs and help to develop tools and pipelines as necessary to keep pace with rapid advances in technology. You will demonstrate continuous self-improvement, make effective contributions to the center, and adhere to the Cedars-Sinai Health System compliance plan, code of conduct, and hospital and departmental policies and procedures. You may also serve as a preceptor for students.

    Essential job duties and responsibilities:

  • Provides general bioinformatics analysis support for clinical data analysis as well as analysis of omics data.
  • Summarizes data analyses results in the form suitable as the basis for the first draft of written reports, and makes preliminary interpretations of the data.
  • Develop, test, and maintain modular software pipelines for clinical data, genome sequencing results and proteomics analysis.
  • Manages data including loading and querying data from database systems, and transforming data to the necessary formats.
  • Familiar with medical and biological terminologies and bioinformatics resources. Ready to provide solutions for investigator's problems through data mining and extraction.
  • Identify, evaluate, and incorporate relevant algorithms and software pipelines by reviewing pertinent literatures in bioinformatics and computational biology.
  • Assists or collaborate in preparation of grant proposals, publications, and presentations.
  • Educates others about bioinformatics through mentoring of and teaching colleagues, investigators, fellows, and graduate students.

    Qualifications

    Educational requirements:
  • Master of Science Degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Electric Engineering, Computational biology, or Bioinformatics, or Master of Science/ Engineering in relevant fields (e.g. Biology with strong quantitative training, biostatistics with concentration in bioinformatics)

    Experience:

  • Three (3) years in research environment. Background and working knowledge in algorithms, scientific computing, and machine learning or statistics.
  • Familiar with C/C++, Java, Perl, python, and the Unix (Linux) environment.
  • Experience in manipulating, analyzing, and annotating very large genomic (e.g. NGS) data sets both in exploratory and pipelined fashions.

    About Us

    Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

    About the Team

    Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.

    Req ID : HRC0304046A
    Working Title : Research Bioinformatician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention at Cedars-Sinai
    Department : Heart Institute
    Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Job Category : Academic / Research
    Job Specialty : Bioinformatics
    Overtime Status : EXEMPT
    Primary Shift : Day
    Shift Duration : 8 hour
    Base Pay : $ $64.02


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