
Salary: Per UAW and Mount Sinai agreement starting salary $74,692.00
Department: 866 – Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Location: 3 East 101st Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10029
Department website: https://icahn.mssm.edu/about/departments-offices/immunology-immunotherapy
Laboratory website: https://www.chowell-lab.com/
The Chowell Laboratory is seeking highly motivated postdocs to lead projects aimed at the field of computational immune-oncology. The candidate will work in close collaboration with other computational biologists, experimental and clinical investigators and will also focus on problems at the intersection of cancer immunogenomics, cancer immunotherapy, data science, and machine learning.
Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: The main goal of the lab is to have an impact on human health through the use of clinical and genomic data, and computational tools.
Technical Duties: (include any protocols)
Qualifications:
This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the ISMMS and the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee - UAW.
Wages and benefits: See Article 5 and 13 of The collective bargaining agreement found online at https://sinaipostdocunion.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12-17-23-SPOC-UAW-_-Mount-Sinai-Tentative-Agreement-FINAL-PDF.pdf
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Compensation Statement
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides salary ranges that comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $74,692.00 - $80,000.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and operational need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
SPOC-UAW Local 4100 at Icahn School of Medicine (Post Docs), 866 - Immunology and Immunotherapy - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine
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