Director, Computational Biology
Director, Computational Biology 1322730
Location: Cambridge, MA (hybrid)
Science/ Focus: NextGen mRNA
Therapeutic Area(s): Oncology, Immuno-Oncology
Job Overview: The Director, Computational Biology will lead and drive the proprietary mRNA platform and have extensive experience within computational biology, bioinformatics and molecular biology.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of highly skilled computational biologists and data scientists.
- Apply advanced statistical methods to cross-validate and evaluate significance of hypotheses
- Work collaboratively with internal and external cross-functional teams, collaborators, and SAB members to align, plan and execute on the overall research and development plans
- Work independently and think out of the box to extract meaningful insights from public datasets
- Present scientific findings internally and externally at key scientific conferences
- Support IP filings and manuscript preparations
Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Computational Biology/Bioinformatics with 7+ years of Biopharma experience
- Experience in managing a computational biology team
- Preferred experience with NGS data, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics analyses, bash/shell scripting, public datasets, such as TCGA and GTEX, RNA folding
- Fluency in commonly used programming languages in common computational biology tools, such as Python, R, Perl or C/C++
- Good understanding of capabilities and limits of the modern machine learning techniques such as Deep Neural Networks, CNNs, GANs, LSTMs, and expert knowledge in at least one deep learning framework such TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Familiarity with the heuristic search and multi-objective optimization algorithms such as gradient descent, A-star, genetic algorithms, Bayesian optimization, etc.
- Experience with patient stratification and biomarker analysis is a plus
- Preferred skills: Theoretical understanding ribosome profiling and network biology, hands on expertise on single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics analyses, and/or machine learning
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