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Associate Director Integrative Translational Genetics

Associate Director Integrative Translational Genetics

CompanyRegeneron Pharmaceuticals
LocationCambridge, MA, USA, Tarrytown, NY, USA
Salary$173500 – $283100
TypeFull-Time
DegreesPhD
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Statistical Genetics, Human (Population) Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology or related field with good computational skills
  • At least 3 years of relevant post-doc experience
  • Experience with setting up a codebase for human genetic studies in a high-performance computing environment
  • Experience in Git and scripting or programming languages
  • Proficiency in R and R-Shiny
  • Interest in understanding the genetic basis and causes of Cardiometabolic disease

Responsibilities

  • Develop new analytical approaches, data processing pipelines and establish internal data practices
  • Collaborate with the Genomes informatics and Analytical Genomics team to develop and integrate new functionality into browsers and tools hosted on AWS
  • Enable others in the team to implement analytical approaches by automating them, designing interfaces and support code development in R
  • Mine the 1M+ sequencing data to generate new biological hypotheses around cardiometabolic disease
  • Generate, summarize and present results in internal and external meetings to a variety of audiences
  • Deliver reliable analyses across projects in a dynamic, high-pace and creative working environment
  • Lead and contribute to the writing of scientific reports and publications

Preferred Qualifications

  • A strong work ethic and are proactive in providing solutions
  • Experience with the various applications of statistical genetics to obtain new insights into human biology
  • Ideas to move this field forward