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Senior Bioinformatician - Bioinformatics & Biostatistics

The Francis Crick Institute

Location: London
Salary: From £51,300 with benefits, subject to skills and experience
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 4th October 2024
Closes: 27th October 2024
Job Ref: R1923
 

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

The Crick seeks to recruit a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Bioinformatician with extensive experience analysing biological data in a research environment. In this position, you will be working as part of the Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Scientific Technology Platform (STP), a talented and dynamic team where you can apply your bioinformatics skills to technology-driven research questions across the broad range of human health research activities found at the Crick, and particularly the Immunosurveillance Laboratory led by Professor Adrian Hayday.

In this role, you will collaborate with Francis Crick scientists to analyse data from the latest cutting-edge genomic sequencing technologies. As part of a large team of expert bioinformaticians, biostatisticians and data scientists, you will work closely with the scientific groups to generate, interpret and explain analysis results to help drive forward discovery.

You will apply your biostatistics skills to technology-driven research questions across the broad range of biomedical research activities found at the Crick. The successful applicants will have a proven track record in collaborative academic research, including statistical analysis and interpretation of large, complex datasets. You should possess a PhD with significant experience in bioinformatics, mathematics, or statistics biomedical-based research with a large computational component.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide bioinformatics expertise to help Francis Crick scientists achieve their research objectives.
  • Provide expertise to inform on the experimental and analysis design process.
  • Analyse complex genomic data, using a wide range of biological resources and bioinformatic methods to deliver on complex bespoke analysis goals.
  • Interpret, evaluate and apply novel analysis approaches to build bespoke analysis pipelines to solve analysis questions.
  • Apply analysis expertise to help scientists interpret results and make research decisions.
  • Work independently at all points of the data analysis workflow.
  • Help to develop others by mentoring

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

  • If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
  • The closing date for applications is 27/10/2024
  • All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
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