Computational Biologist

 

Description:


As a Computational Biologist at Owkin, you will have a unique opportunity to contribute to the discovery and development of better treatments and to the future of personalised medicine. You will join our fast-growing R&D Data Science organisation and work alongside world-class experts in AI and Biostatistics. Your experience in omics will allow you to contribute to projects in partnership with leading medical institutes and pharmaceutical companies. You will also play a role in advancing our internal R&D projects.

What You Will Be Doing
 

  • Contribute analyses to projects aiming to discover novel drug targets, biomarkers and disease subtypes through reverse translation based on multi-omics patient or pre-clinical data including: genomics, transcriptomics (spatial, single-cell, bulk), proteomics, and others.
  • Analyse biomedical datasets using classical or novel omics methods and machine / deep learning algorithms
  • Conduct literature reviews to stay up-to-date with respect to relevant approaches and datasets
  • Participate in the interpretation of results and help design validation strategies together with cross-functional teams.
  • Collaborate with other members of Owkin’s R&D and Biomedical departments with varied backgrounds (computational biologists, biostatisticians, experts in medical imaging, federated learning, medical doctors, biologists, …).
  • Contribute analyses and visualisations to help generate scientific papers and project reports.
  • Participate in Owkin’s internal R&D activities, develop new as well as improve existing methodologies, strive to keep Owkin’s Toolbox to the state-of-the-art.
     

Who We Are Looking For

The successful candidate will have a ‘team-first’ kind of attitude; be curious and detail-attentive; thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment; and be fun to work with.

And
 

  • Be passionate about the intersections of healthcare and AI.
  • MSc / PhD in either Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biology, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field.
  • Experience working with omics data and NGS data processing pipelines. Good programming skills in Python and/or R; ability to ideate and conduct exploratory analyses and data visualisations to aid interpretation.
  • Good knowledge about molecular and cellular biology, especially related to cancer and/or I&I to help interpret analysis results together with our BioMedical experts.
  • Familiarity with machine learning concepts and toolkits such as: cross validation, statistical tests; scikit learn, xgboost, etc.
  • Be fluent in written and spoken English.

Organization Owkin
Industry Other Jobs Jobs
Occupational Category Computational Biologist
Job Location London,UK
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2024-07-12 7:16 pm
Expires on 2024-12-01