Job Location : Philadelphia,PA, USA
The Wistar Institute is a world leader in early-stage discovery science in the areas of cancer, immunology, and infectious disease. Wistar is committed to accelerating research advances from bench to bedside through brilliant science and distinctive approaches to collaboration among scientific investigators and academic and industry partners. Wistar's dynamic environment supports the advancement of discoveries that will change the future of human health. The Wistar Institute has an opening for a Bioinformatics Technician in the Center for Advanced Therapeutics ( The Center ) to perform a wide variety of laboratory tasks and experiments in a highly interactive and collaborative team. The Center for Advance Therapeutics focuses on cancer, infectious disease and translation research to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics. Successful candidates will have an MS in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Biomedical Sciences with coursework related to high throughput data analysis, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required. Prior experience in Matlab or R statistical environments, programming languages Python or Perl and/or in bioinformatics data analysis of high throughput data (next generation sequencing, microarrays, proteomics) is preferred. The Wistar Institute is located in the University City area of Philadelphia, in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania Campus. Wistar provides resources to its faculty and staff that enable them to conduct cutting edge collaborative research and provides for outstanding intellectual environments and state-of-the-art facilities. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package. For more information about The Wistar Institute visit our website at www.wistar.org. It is the policy of the Institute to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, citizenship, ethnicity, color, creed, religion, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, veteran status, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), pregnancy, caregiver status, domestic or sexual violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or on the basis of genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, with respect to all terms and conditions of employment.