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The Asthma Research Center (ARC) in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is looking for an exceptional postdoctoral fellow to advance research in asthma precision medicine, with a focus on bioinformatics and multi-omics, under the supervision of ARC Director Dr. Elliot Israel and Associate Director Dr. Craig Hersh. The fellow will work on one of several projects which include datasets of RNA-sequencing, metabolomics, and/or other omics from blood and respiratory samples with corresponding clinical, imaging, and genotyping data. In addition, these projects will be generating new omics datasets in banked clinical specimens. The fellow will take primary responsibility for data analysis and management, sharing results with the research team, presenting at local and national meetings, and preparing conference abstracts and manuscripts for publication. The fellow will work with an interdisciplinary team, consisting of clinician-investigators, clinical trials staff, laboratory technicians, bioinformaticians, genetic epidemiologists, and translational scientists.
Qualified candidates should have:
Successful candidates will have the drive to pursue new scientific questions and be readily able to learn new skills and analytic techniques. Salary is commensurate with experience. The position is available immediately.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and part of Mass General Brigham, the largest recipient of NIH funding among independent hospitals. The Asthma Research Center has led or been a key site in numerous clinical trials and observational studies funded by NIH and other public agencies, industry and/or foundations, including the NIH Severe Asthma Program (SARP).
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This position is being posted for informational purposes only. To be considered, please submit the following directly to Craig Hersh, MD, MPH,: chersh@bwh.harvard.edu by clicking the link below:
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