Computational biologist/bioinformatician

13 hours ago

Prague, Czech Republic SOTIO Biotech Full time
Position Summary

  • SOTIO Biotech, a. s., has an exciting career opportunity available in our Research & Early Development Dept., Prague. Bring your diverse experiences and work within an exceptional, science-focused environment.

  • We are looking for a suitable candidate with specialization in computational biology approaches within the Translational Science division with the focus on biological drugs development.

  • You will work with an experienced team focused on the identification of predictive biomarkers and biomarkers for assessing drug efficacy in the context of immuno-oncology approaches to shed light on various clinically relevant immuno-oncology areas
     

Key Activities and Responsibilities

  • application of relevant computational and bioinformatics methods to cancer genomic data (RNAseq, Nanostring and other advanced genetic datasets)

  • Computational analyses in the context of immuno-oncology

  • application of statistical approaches to biological problems

  • Provide expertise to support the project team from early discovery to early clinical development.

  • Work in an integrated project team and consult with subject matter experts as necessary.
     

Competences, Skills and Qualification

  • Education in life science area, preferentially Bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biology or similar with a PhD or master’s degree.

  • Demonstrated familiarity with analysing and deciphering transcriptomic/genomic data (RNA seq analysis, NanoString analysis, WES…)

  • Demonstrated familiarity deriving systems biology-driven networks from omics data

  • Demonstrated previous experience with computational programming (e.g. R language/Python/MATLAB or others)

  • Demonstrated previous experience with analysis of publicly available cancer genetic expression datasets (especially TCGA datasets and GEOdatasets)

  • skills in application of statistical approaches to biological problems (e.g. statistical testing, linear modelling)

  • good communication skills

  • a highly collaborative spirit and willingness to work in collaboration with several different teams and clinicians

  • Fluent English (written and spoken-B1-C1 levels)
     

Location

  • Českomoravská 2532/19b, 1900 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic