Scientist/Senior Scientist – Bioinformatics

Cerevance is a pharmaceutical company harnessing a novel technology platform to deliver life-changing therapeutics for patients with central nervous system diseases. Cerevance is generating a large and diverse human CNS expression and epigenetics data set from which new targets are being identified for innovative drug discovery programmes. We are seeking to recruit a Bioinformatician to join our bioinformatics group, based in our Cambridge, UK facility.

Key responsibilities:

Providing support for the CNS expression and epigenetics project, including analysis, data integration and systems approaches. Identification of novel drug targets is a key output. Application of statistically robust methods is essential.

Conducting ad-hoc bioinformatics analyses in support of various internal projects, including analysis of internal and public domain expression data, public domain association studies, known variants, and pathway and network analysis.

Maintaining a close iterative relationship with the biology teams that generate and consume data. You will provide analysis results in easily accessible formats and guide these teams in their use.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate will have a relevant MSc with at least 3 years industry experience, or a relevant PhD, experience of working in bioinformatics and a strong record of creativity. You will possess excellent technical informatics and applied statistics skills. Experience with RNA-Seq and R/Bioconductor is essential, experience with epigenetics data, GWAS and other genetic studies and a knowledge of neurobiology would be beneficial.

Good interpersonal and communication skills are essential as you will be working closely with our scientists in support of our research projects.

Application Instructions: 

Cerevance offers competitive salary and benefits packages. Covering letter and CV should be sent to recruitment@cerevance.com by the closing date of 25th September.

Application Closing Date: 
25 September 2020