纽约大学博士后职位招聘–遗传学、生物统计学、统计学或流行病学方向

Job Description

We have a number of post-doctoral and staff scientist positions in the Institute of Systems Genetics, and the Division of Transplant in NYU Langone. The position will entail working on cutting edge genomics and omics research and clinical trials in human to human solid organ transplant and pig to human xenotransplants. The positions are funded for at least 3 years and entail continued ongoing grants/collaborations with Mike Snyder’s ;an in Stanford and Manolis Kellis’s lab in MIT. The candidate will ideally have strong experience with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and one of more additional omics.
Qualifications
• PhD in Genetics, Biostatistics, Statistics, or Epidemiology
• Demonstrated proficiency with statistical methods especially with genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
• Competent in SAS programming language and/or R
• Expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a team environment
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts, both written and oral
Responsibilities
• The Biostatistician collaborates with clinical investigators to determine study design, contributes to protocol development, writes statistical analysis plans, performs statistical analysis and inference and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals
• The Biostatistician develops systems for monitoring the quality of clinical data
• The Biostatistician ensures high-quality statistical support is provided for clinical trials, registries and basic research using advanced statistical skills and knowledge of clinical research
• Writes sections of protocols that require statistical input
• Reviews protocols and case report forms to ensure that protocol objectives are met and standards are maintained
• Generates treatment allocations in randomized clinical research studies and ensures proper implementation
• Leads the project team’s development of statistical analysis plans and programs to perform analyses and display study data
• Performs statistical analyses, writes and validates application programs
• Implements data and safety monitoring reports to ensure participants safety
• Develops metrics and generates quality control reports to optimize the performance of clinical sites and the coordinating center
• Generates study reports to be distributed to internal and external monitoring committees and regulatory bodies
• Authors or contributes to manuscripts and/or scientific presentations