Research Bioinformatician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Chugh Laboratory
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Research Bioinformatician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Chugh Laboratory

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Posted:
August 1, 2020
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Salary:
Open
Type:
Full-time
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.
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.
  • Working Title: Research Bioinformatician II - Smidt Heart Institute - Chugh Laboratory
  • Department: Heart Institute Operations
  • Business Entity: Academic / Research
  • City: Los Angeles
  • Job Category: Academic/Research
  • Job Specialty: Bioinformatics
  • Position Type: Full-time
  • Shift Length: 8 hour shift
  • Shift Type: Day

Internal Number: 20003147
About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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