Senior Bioinformatics Scientist - EHR Phenotyping

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 186,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN seeks a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist to advance EHR-driven phenotyping for pharmacogenomics discovery.

You will develop informatics tools and resources to enhance phenotyping via terminology/ontology, NLP, and ML, collaborating with clinicians and data scientists on large external biobank datasets and internal EHR data. The role requires leading analytical projects, implementing methods, and documenting protocols.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, statistics or CS with biology/chemistry background.
• Master's degree or PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide research support and deliver high-quality results by formulating an efficient analytical approach with the available data.
• Deliver data files and document the analytical process. May participate in manuscript preparation at project’s conclusion.
• Assist with establishing and documenting protocols or best practices for common research tasks, and in the formulation of analytical plans that use the best approach to address challenging data analysis questions.
• Assist in the evaluation and testing of new methods and technologies.
• Contribute ideas to automate or improve existing analysis methods. Implement the improvement or work with others to do so.
• Participate in the department's developmental projects and interdepartmental team projects.

Skills

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, statistics/computer science with biology/chemistry background

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

R

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN seeks a Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist to advance EHR-driven phenotyping for pharmacogenomics discovery.

You will develop informatics tools and resources to enhance phenotyping via terminology/ontology, NLP, and ML, collaborating with clinicians and data scientists on large external biobank datasets and internal EHR data. The role requires leading analytical projects, implementing methods, and documenting protocols.