The Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Seeks a “Bioinformatician for the Prostate Cancer Research Group”
Reference: 2024-064-01
Application deadline: 30/11/2024
Number of vacancies: 1
Job description:
The Prostate Cancer Research Group and the VHIO Bionformatics Group are seeking a bioinformatician to join our groups as a technician. The successful candidate will be integrated at the Bionformatics Group, to participate and give support in different projects from the Prostate Cancer Research Group.
About the group:
Our group mission is to improve the care of prostate cancer patients and their families through a better understanding of treatment response and resistance mechanisms.
The lab comprises a multidisciplinary team composed by medical oncologists, biomedical scientists, technology specialists and data analysts; we use multi-omic approaches that integrate clinical, cellular and molecular data. Most of our projects have a shared goal: understanding how tumor evolves under therapeutic pressure, and how this evolution can create additional targetable vulnerabilities. This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving and enthusiastic multidisciplinary team working to have a direct impact on the wellbeing of cancer patients.
Find more about our research here: https://www.vhio.net/prostate-cancer-translational-research-group/
About the position:
The successful candidate will play an integral role in the analysis of genomic and molecular data to identify patterns of response and resistance to therapy and elucidate new potential treatment approaches. The successful candidate will work under the joined supervision of the Prostate Cancer Research Group and the Bioinformatics Unit at VHIO.
The candidate will be trained to implement and use state-of-art omics analysis pipelines (mainly, but not exclusively, related to WGS, WES, RNA-Seq/scRNA-Seq, and spatial transcriptomics data). Additionally, the selected applicant will gain expertise in operating within our HPC computational cluster, using Singularity or Docker for containerization and Slurm for job scheduling and resource management.
Tasks:
- Work in coordination and under the supervision of the relevant staff in the Bioinformatics Core and the Prostate Cancer Translational Research Group, promoting interaction and knowledge transfer between the two groups.
- Work in the internal HPC system.
- Implement, execute and troubleshoot specific omics pipelines.
- Create and maintain an internal database for genomic data.
Requirements:
- Degree in bioinformatics or postgraduate studies in bioinformatics, computational biology or similar.
- Fluent in R, Phyton and Bash (GNU/Linux) scripting. Other programming languages will also be valued.
- Basic understanding of genomics technologies and their analysis workflows, particularly related to DNA-Seq and RNA-Seq.
- Basic understanding of statistical tools for biological data analysis.
- Advanced level of English, written and spoken.
Valuable additions:
- Professional experience relevant to the position.
- Experience in version control programming (e.g. Git) and hosting (e.g. GitHub).
- Experience in container systems (e.g. Docker or Singularity).
- Experience in Nextflow or similar workflow managers.
- Familiarity with statistical modelling, machine learning and deep-learning.
Additional information:
We offer:
- 📈The possibility of developing your professional career in a competitive environment.
- 🧠To be part of a centre that is constantly developing, pursuing excellence in research and collaborating with leading teams.
- 🫱🏻🫲🏾We offer and promote a diverse and inclusive environment, and welcome all people equally, regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation.
- 🪴We care about our environment and understand the importance of sustainability. We have the GreenVhio program, which you can be a part of.
Conditions:
- 📝Permanent contract.
- 🍉Fresh fruit every tuesday.
- 💶Salary according to qualifications and experience following VHIO pay scales.
- 💳Flexible remuneration program (includes restaurant vouchers/cards, transport, medical insurance, and “baby daycare” voucher).
- ⏰Flexible working hours and measures to balance work, family, and personal life, and promote gender equality, as established in the VHIO collective agreement.
- 🗺️23 days of holidays and 5 personal days.
- 🎓Fully subsidized Catalan, Spanish, or English courses.
Application:
Candidates must submit a curriculum vitae and letter of intent via email: selecciorrhh@vhio.net, including the reference number “Ref. 2024-064-01” in the subject line of your email.
About VHIO:
Under the leadership of Josep Tabernero, the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), has established itself as a comprehensive cancer center of proven excellence internationally. It is also thanks to VHIO’s optimal organizational structure based on a purely multidisciplinary and translational model that VHIO talents continue to anticipate and tackle the many unresolved questions in combatting this multifaceted and heterogeneous disease.
Located within the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, our researchers closely collaborate and interact with Vall d’Hebron physician-scientists. Translational science and clinical research are therefore tightly connected which promotes superb interaction and teamwork which, in turn, accelerates the bench-bedside-bed cycle of knowledge. This privileged environment affords VHIO direct access to patients as well as the entire spectrum of oncology professionals who care for them, and a second-to-none appreciation of how cancer science can translate into more powerful, targeted treatments and better practice for the care of patients.
VHIO’s pioneering model and programs, coupled with its belief in combining strengths through cross-border collaborations, continue to spur advances in reversing cancer resistance, halting metastatic spread, and more effectively treating even the most undruggable tumor types.
VHIO’s translation toward precision oncology: https://www.vhio.net
Vall d’Hebron Institute Oncology (VHIO) endorses the Requirements and Principles of the European Charter for Researchers, the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers promoted by the European Commission and follows Equal Opportunities policies.
On 10th April 2018 VHIO was awarded the “HR Excellence in Research” logo. Our Institute was consequently granted permission to use the HR Excellence in Research Award logo as demonstration of its stimulating and favourable work environment in line with the Charter & Code
