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City of Hope
Postdoctoral Fellow - Pediatric Leukemia Research
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What they do
A General Pediatrician diagnoses and treats illness and injuries in infants, children and young adults. Provides regular health exams, tracks children's' growth and development and gives vaccinations. Works from a private practice or within a hospital or larger healthcare facility.
$215,664 / year median in California
+10% projected growth
Job Description
Postdoctoral Fellow - Pediatric Leukemia Research City of Hope - 3.6 Duarte, CA Job Details Full-time $34.50 - $37.82 an hour 19 hours ago Qualifications Software coding Programming languages Doctor of Philosophy Full Job Description Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research. The laboratory of Dr. Adam de Smith in the Department of Pediatrics is looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to study the etiology and early-life origins of childhood acute leukemia. The de Smith lab uses molecular and epidemiological methodologies to advance our understanding of the germline genetic risk, somatic drivers, and early-life origins of childhood leukemia, with the goal of developing strategies for disease prevention. You will have opportunities to analyze large-scale germline genotyping data, as well as tumor whole-genome sequencing data from childhood leukemia patients to investigate the etiologic role of early-life environmental exposures and the prenatal origins of childhood leukemia, for example in our ReCord Study (https://record.umn.edu).
Your qualifications should include:
Ph.D. degree in genetics, genetic epidemiology, biological sciences, or a related discipline is required. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Proficiency in one or more programming languages is essential. Evidence of productivity reflected in first author publications in peer-reviewed journals. Ability to conduct independent research and work effectively in a team. Experience in conducting human genetics research and analyzing large genetic datasets is preferred. City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location. City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, pleaseCLICK HERE
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