Senior Bioinformatician

Recruiter
Paramount Recruitment Ltd
Location
Cambridge
Salary
50000.00 - 60000.00 GBP Annual
Posted
25 Sep 2017
Closes
04 Oct 2017
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Senior Bioinformatician - Cambridge

A thriving young biotech specialising in drug discovery research for critical CNS conditions is seeking a highly skilled Bioinformatician with strong analysis skills to join their select team. Working with novel data, this is a stimulating, fast paced environment that offers significant creativity. The chosen candidate will have the chance to take part in ground-breaking research into debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's and Schizophrenia.

The ideal candidate will have:

-A strong computational biology/bioinformatics background, and extensive experience with R/Bioconductor and ideally Python
-A PhD or MSc in a related discipline
-Robust data analysis skills, with a background in identifying novel drug targets
-Experience with RNA-seq data
-Good quantitative, statistical, mathematical ability
- Previous experience in neuroscience/CNS would be highly desirable
-Biomedical knowledge/understanding and the ability to communicate with biologists and other team members
-Able to work independently and generate fresh ideas and approaches

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to enter into the formative years of a truly outstanding biotech company. This organisation is financially well-supported, has a great location, and offers a competitive package. For more information, send across your CV to ************************ or call Emilie on **************

Key words: Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, CNS, Central Nervous System, RNA-seq, Brain Science, Research, Statistical, Quantitative, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, Cambridge, London, Oxford, Stevenage, Biotech, Biomedical, Drug Discovery, Biomarker, novel data, pathway analysis

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