Postdoctoral Fellow – Wellington Laboratory

Postdoctoral Fellow in Pathology and Laboratory Drugs

Specialization: Biostatistics, Neurology

Major Supervision: Dr. Cheryl Wellington

Establishment: The College of British Columbia

Location: Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Mind Well being, UBC

Contact: [email protected]

the Wellington Laboratory

The Wellington Laboratory is a big and various group that conducts each medical and preclinical analysis within the areas of traumatic mind damage, Alzheimer’s illness and different types of dementia. We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to hitch the Wellington Laboratory’s medical fluid biomarker group. The medical fluid biomarker group makes use of state-of-the-art applied sciences to detect all kinds of protein biomarkers in blood and cerebrospinal fluid. These protein biomarkers assist to replicate the sophisticated dynamics of the mind, thereby enabling their roles as analysis instruments to help in screening, prognosis, prognosis, medical trial design and interpretation. We work collaboratively with many clinicians and clinician scientists on the native, nationwide and worldwide ranges, finding out numerous points of neurological well being and illness, together with: neurotrauma, acquired mind damage, neurocritical care, neurodegeneration and wholesome getting old.

Job Description

Fluid biomarkers can present an in depth image of neurological well being and illness utilizing comparatively low-cost, accessible, goal, and scalable instruments. There was a speedy expanse of analysis into candidate blood-based biomarkers that present utility for the prognosis and prognosis of neurological situations. This place will give attention to the statistical evaluation for a number of initiatives involving giant scale databases from numerous cohorts, together with however not restricted to traumatic or hypoxic mind damage, spinal wire damage, Alzheimer’s illness and associated dementias, A number of Sclerosis and wholesome getting old. The postdoctoral fellow will oversee their very own particular person challenge, to be developed in collaboration between the supervisor and a profitable candidate. They may even present steering to lab members for different initiatives.

Key Obligations

• Lead challenge design, together with creating scope and writing statistical evaluation sections for grant functions
• Coordinate and talk challenge targets with lab members and exterior collaborators
• Conduct experiments analyzing biospecimens
• Apply superior statistical approaches to large-scale knowledge, together with combining proteomic/biomarker knowledge with giant medical databases from cohorts of as much as 5,000+ contributors
• Advise and supervise graduate and undergraduate college students relating to statistical approaches
• Put together shows and publications, together with determine manufacturing, writing and modifying

Minimal {Qualifications}

• Latest completion of a PhD
• 5+ years of analysis expertise in biostatistics, knowledge science, bioinformatics, epidemiology, medical laboratory medication, or associated fields
• Robust proficiency in statistical evaluation, with expertise with GraphPad Prism, RStudio, and SPSS

Most well-liked {Qualifications}

• Robust organizational and time administration abilities
• Robust oral and written communication abilities
• Expertise supervising initiatives and crew members
• Background information of immunoassay expertise and troubleshooting
• Expertise working with organic specimens
• Expertise with synthetic intelligence and machine studying analytical strategies

Find out how to Apply

Submit utility bundle as a single doc to: [email protected]

• Curriculum Vitae (together with hyperlinks to three most up-to-date publications)
• Educational transcripts
• 1 web page cowl letter

Funding

The anticipated stipend for this place is $50,000 to $60,000 per 12 months. If the candidate doesn’t have CIHR or comparable funding they are going to be anticipated to be proactive in making use of for awards.

Extra Info

Wellington Laboratory

The College of British Columbia

Graduate and Postdoctoral Research

Division of Pathology and Laboratory Drugs

Program Eligibility

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Mind Well being

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