St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a global leader in the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases of childhood.

Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. St. Jude has been named a top pediatric cancer hospital on U.S. News & World Report’s annual "Best Hospitals" list and named to Fortune magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" list.

Research and treatments developed at St. Jude are shared to help improve the survival rate for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases worldwide. St. Jude is recognized as one of the world’s premier pediatric research and treatment institutions with a focus on acute lymphoblastic leukemia, brain tumors and infectious diseases. With eight affiliate clinics across the country, St. Jude treats about 8,600 children each year. Beyond the United States, the institution’s St. Jude Global initiative seeks to improve health care for children with life-threatening disease worldwide.

The Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics is seeking a bioinformatician to join our highly collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience working with systems biology, drug-gene interactions, and network analysis. Projects will focus on advancing cutting-edge drug discovery programs for childhood catastrophic diseases using the latest approaches in proximity-based targeting. Specifically, based on the mechanistic basis of disease, our goal is to develop unique chemical approaches (protein degraders, synthetic gene regulators and/or functional effectors) to degrade or manipulate targets relevant to pediatric oncology, neurodegenerative disorders and sickle cell disease. This position will work closely with researchers in the Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery.

Job Responsibilities:

Analyze biomedical data with minimal supervision by performing advanced analysis, algorithm implementation, programming, and quality check.

Assist senior analysts and scientists in the courses and training - with in-house training programs, user groups, seminars, documentation, and newsletters.

Evaluate and integrate products, solutions, tools, and web-based applications.

Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of relevant databases or data warehouse.

Develop prototypes for cloud portals and visualization tools; programs for the analysis of data within databases.

Develop web services to query the database.

Develop and implement computational and systems biology approaches for network and hidden driver analysis for genomic transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.

Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to apply developed algorithms to diverse datasets.

Perform integrative analyses of multidimensional datasets within the context of induced proximity drug discovery strategies.

Communicate with project managers on design and implementation of analytical processes, project progress, and results.

Perform other duties as assigned to meet the goals and objectives of the department and institution.

Maintains regular and predictable attendance.

Minimum Education and/or Training:

Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, statistics/computer science (with a background in biological sciences or chemistry) or related field.

Master's degree preferred.

Minimum Experience:

Minimum Requirement: 4+ years of relevant experience required.

Experience Exception: Master's degree and 1+ years of relevant experience.

Experience in at least one programming or scripting language and at least one statistical package, with R preferred.

Experience in high throughput screening and proteomics data analysis strongly preferred.