Description
JOB SUMMARY:
The Hughey Lab is seeking a Staff Scientist to lead projects using genomics and electronic health records to quantify the effects of daily rhythms on human health. The successful applicant will contribute to the research directions and culture of the lab. We're looking for someone who is independent, eager to improve, and not afraid to make mistakes.
Responsibilities will include:
- designing and conducting independent research
- writing manuscripts and giving oral presentations
- mentoring and collaborating with other members of the lab
The focus of the lab is on using computation to understand biological systems, and the computational tools we develop are designed for various types of biomedical data. We are particularly interested in the circadian system, the network of internal clocks that drives daily rhythms in our physiology and behavior. The lab is part of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, the Department of Biological Sciences, and the Vanderbilt Center for Precision Medicine. For more information, visit https://hugheylab.org.
Assists the Principal Investigator with grant and manuscript preparation. Independently carry out and design highly sophisticated and independent experiments. Mentor and train graduate students and post doctoral fellow in developing their research projects.
Department/Unit Summary:
The mission of the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical informatics has complementary themes that include education, research, service, and a commitment to our colleagues in our own institution and around the world. The Educational Mission is to educate undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate trainees in the theory and practice of biomedical informatics. The Research and Service Mission is to develop and evaluate innovative technologies for the storage, retrieval, dissemination, and application of biomedical knowledge, in order to support clinical practice, biomedical research, life-long learning, and administration and as a result, to contribute to the professional body of knowledge in the field of biomedical informatics. The Professional and Ethical Mission is to maintain cooperation and collegiality with all those who learn and work with us locally, nationally, and internationally; and, to develop and disseminate ethical and professional standards for the conduct of biomedical informatics research and for the use and evaluation of health care informatics applications.
Day Shift/ Exempt Position
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Additional Key Elements/ Responsibilities:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Independently oversee research projects and perform near to totally independent research.
- Supervise, plan, design and implement research projects
- oEstablish highly complex protocol(s); define data collection, evaluation and analysis procedures
- Exercise discretion and independent judgment to develop methods and procedures for operation of complex scientific equipment
- Supervise set-up and operation of various scientific experiments involving complex apparatus and equipment
- Contribute to research so as to merit serving as author or co-author on research publications, etc.
- Assist principal investigator in writing research grants and contract proposals
- Assists PI in manuscript preparation for scientific journals.
- Present research findings as needed
- Responsible for plan and coordination of literature and library searches and data collection programs
- Develop reports of results, graphs, charts, tables, etc. of research findings
- Supervise writing, reviewing and editing of various materials for publication
- Provide supervisory responsibility to staff
- Mentor and teach graduate students and post doctoral fellows in developing their projects and on specific techniques and protocols.
- Train and supervise technical staff, medical and graduate students
- Provide technical guidance to students, pos-doctoral fellows and faculty as required
- May provide budget responsibility
- Make recommendations to principal investigator regarding staff, supply and equipment needs for research projects
- May monitor expenditures of funds
- Maintain open communication between department and others
- Open contact as needed with principal investigator, collaborating professionals, Purchasing, Human Resource Services, Space and Facilities Planning, asset management personnel, Environmental Health and Safety, Institutional Review Board staff, administrative staff relating to budget capabilities
- Contact as required with sponsoring agencies and/or cooperating facilities (e.g. V.A.), collaborating professionals and vendors
* Doctorate/ PhD required and 2 years experience required.
Experience with and knowledge of:
- Programming in R (preferred), Python, Matlab, or a similar language
- Relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres
- Version control using Git and GitHub
- Statistics and machine learning
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