Hello!

I apologize if this is an inappropriate posting for this list and will not repeat in the future if that is the case.  Amgen is looking to hire a contract bioinformatics professional.  Please see the job description below and contact either Scott  Taylor (taylorsc@amgen.com) or Yudong He (yudongh@amgen.com) for more information.

Best Regards,
Scott

Job Description

Molecular and Computational Toxicology Group within the Department of Comparative Biology and Safety Sciences at Amgen is looking for a motivated informatician or computational biologist to contribute to its toxicogenomics and predictive toxicology programs.  The successful candidate will work with the group at Amgen's Seattle Site for an initial period of 6 months as a Research Scientist, Sr. Associate Scientist, or Associate Scientist, depending on candidate's credentials and experience. He or she will join our efforts on the implementation of a variety of computational approaches and tools to analyze genomics as well as other complex data sets in order to help develop new toxicity screening paradigms for use in drug development. Specific tasks include integrating and mining historical data, and developing new methods for identifying mechanisms of actions related to toxicity in preclinical setting.
Requirements: A Masters or Ph.D in Bioinformatics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related fields with 3+ yrs working experience is required. Proven knowledge in molecular biology, statistics, and databases is expected. Working experience with high volume data such as microarrays and programming with Matlab or R is also expected.


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