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The Division has several faculty members having active research agendas and methodological and applied funding in areas such as spatial epidemiology, environmental health, cancer control, adaptive clinical trials, and bioinformatics. These grants complement our larger, more collaborative research projects with investigators in the University's Academic Health Center. At the present time, the Division has statistical and data coordinating centers for NIH-funded clinical trials networks in HIV/AIDS, and in lung and cardiovascular disease. The Division of Biostatistics (www.sph.umn.edu/biostatistics) currently includes 34 graduate faculty and 68 staff. The Division offers MS, MPH, and PhD degrees as well as a certificate in applied biostatistics, and interacts in teaching, advising and research with the University of Minnesota School of Statistics. Current research in statistical methodology includes survival analysis, longitudinal models, generalized linear models, statistical genetics, genomics and proteomics, analysis of spatial and longitudinal data, Bayesian methods, causal modeling, computer-intensive methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, and statistical data mining. Besides HIV/AIDS, lung and cardiovascular disease collaborations, the Division collaborates actively on research in cancer prevention and treatment, dentistry and periodontology, environmental and occupational health, health policy, chronic disease care and smoking prevention. Multi-year grants and contracts for various Divisional projects total over $175 M.
Position Title:
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Duties & Responsibilities:
We welcome applications for a Postdoctoral training position in Statistical Genetics of Complex Disorders at the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Minnesota. This NIH-funded project will focus on developing novel statistical and computational methods for detection of genome-wide GxE interactions in longitudinal studies using both unrelated individuals and family samples. The methodological development will be primarily motivated by and applied to the data with unique pedigree structures collected by the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (https://mctfr.psych.umn.edu/). The post-doc researcher will work with Dr Saonli Basu and Dr Wei Pan in the Division of Biostatistics and other researchers in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Applicant may start as early as May, 2013 but later start dates are available and the position will remain open until filled.
Position Qualifications:
Postdoctoral applicants should have completed or be in the process of completing a PhD or equivalent. Preferred fields of study and training include Biostatistics/Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Quantitative Genetics, etc. Programming skills in R (or other programming and statistical software) as well as experience with large datasets is strongly desired.
Salary Range:
To be discussed
Benefits:
http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/benefits/
Web Site:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/biostatistics/
Application Address:
To apply, go to: employment.umn.edu/ Click on Search Postings Enter 184647 in the box for Requisition Number and hit Search
Contact Email: See requsition under employment system
Application Deadline:
None.
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