Boston, MA: entry-level faculty training position in genetics or genomics, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

RESEARCH TRAINING IN GENETICS
Job Code: 0000049195 POSTED: Jan 03

Salary: Open
Location: Boston
Employer: Brigham & Women's Hospital
Position Type: Faculty/Research
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Description
Or Genomics for Physician Investigators. An entry-level faculty training position in genetics or genomics is available beginning July 1, 2008. The position is funded through an institutional K-12 grant from the NIH/NHLBI and aims to develop research independence in the analysis of genome-wide genetic and gene expression data. Research projects will focus on the identification of genetic determinants of asthma/COPD for physician investigators. The successful applicant should have either outstanding quantitative skills, formal training in genetics or genomics, or both. He/she will be involved in all aspects of learning how to perform this type of research. Applicants should have experience in genetic epidemiology, genomics, and/or computer programming, and have an MD degree or the equivalent. Our laboratory uses family-based and case-control genetic study designs combined with high-throughput genotyping and gene expression technologies to elucidate the determinants of chronic airway diseases. We have established 10 well-characterized cohorts (totaling more than 10,000 subjects with DNA samples) for the study of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Our laboratory is equipped with high- and intermediate-throughput genotyping and gene expression platforms, including the Illumina Bead Station and ABI 7900 platforms, an ABI 3730XL DNA sequencer, robotics, an integrated LIMS system, and a 20-node SUN-based cluster. Our faculty has strong expertise in conducting large epidemiologic, genetic, and genomic studies, and extensive experience with analyses of genomic data. This is not a J-1 opportunity.

Interested applicants are instructed to provide their curriculum vitae via e-mail, and arrange two letters of reference, which should be addressed to: Scott T. Weiss, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Center for Genomic Medicine, Director, Program in Bioinformatics, Associate Director, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Telephone: 617-525-2278 ; fax: 617-525-0958; e-mail: scott.weiss@channing.harvard.edu. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women and minorities.