Position Title: Principle Biostatistician

Duties & Responsibilities: Working closely with clinicians, statisticians, biologists and bioinformaticans, the incumbent will provide statistical consultancy and guidance in experimental design and approaches to analyzing data to the functional areas of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN). The incumbent will contribute to the development of novel methods, as well as the application of these and existing methods, to solve complex problems in genomics, proteomics and statistical genetics. An initial area of focus will be gene expression analysis.

Position Qualifications: Required qualifications for this position include a PhD with 2+ years experience, or Master degree with 5+ years experience in Statistics, Mathematics, or related field; knowledge of advanced statistical methods; solid background and experience using statistical approaches to analyze large data sets; experience with parametric and non-parametric tests; and understanding of supervised and unsupervised clustering algorithms. Knowledge of microarray technology is helpful. The incumbent must have the ability to clearly communicate ideas and results of analyses with researchers of various backgrounds, the ability to work well in a team environment, excellent organizational and computer skills, and excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Salary Range: 110-115K

Benefits: http://ucsfhr.ucsf.edu/index.php/jobs/brassring_article/benefits/

Web Site: www.immunetolerance.org

Application Address: Adam L. Asare, PhD Sr Director, Data Analysis and Data Management Biomarker & Discovery Research UCSF Immune Tolerance Network 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 400 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 aasare@immunetolerance.org

Contact Email: aasare@immunetolerance.org

Application Deadline: 07/01/2012