Senior Scientist - Genetics & Genomic Sciences

The Senior Scientist provides scientific and technical leadership in the management, design and execution of a clinical research program. With a broad range of skills and experience, this individual is a critical component of the Principle Investigators laboratory, demonstrating a capacity for collaboration and innovation with consistently high productivity.

• Designs and conducts complex clinical research studies requiring the determination and evaluation of alternative methods, diagnosis and treatment.
• Analyzes and interprets clinical data from research studies.
• Explores subject area and defines scope and selection of problems for investigation through conceptually related studies.
• Develops hypotheses to be tested and methodology for evaluating results.
• Communicates research results to the scientific community via published papers.
• Coordinates seminars and discussions for dissemination of knowledge and results of research in order to develop new diagnosis or treatment.
• Develops new proposals for research and obtain support for new and/ or continuing research activities.
• Makes decisions and recommendations that have a major impact on extensive scientific research activities
• May supervise graduate/ medical students and trainees.
• Performs other related duties.

•          Ph.D in sciences or related field
•          Minimum five years of experience with scientific investigation.
•          Must have demonstrated outstanding achievement in a field of research
•          Must have contributed to a number of peer-reviewed publications, inventions or the like, at least some of which have had a major impact on advancing the field or discipline.
•          Prior experience successfully securing external grant funding is highly desirable.