Staff Scientist, Computational Biology - Machine learning

Known for its scientific and operational excellence, Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high LDL-cholesterol, atopic dermatitis and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases.

Summary:
Seeking a creative computational scientist to translate multiomics data into clinically relevant insights. The scientist will create and apply novel methods to interpret and integrate across diverse data types, including from cutting-edge technologies developed internally. The successful applicant will have strong computational skills, an ability to clearly communicate with wet lab scientists and clinicians, and a desire to learn relevant disease biology and contribute to charting research direction.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with pre-clinical scientists and clinicians to design and interpret molecular profiling experiments.

• Lead development of novel algorithms to analyze data generated by cutting-edge technologies including spatial transcriptome sequencing.

• Run deep-dive analysis of transcriptomic, metabolomic, lipidomic, and other high-thoughput data.

• Contribute to core functions of molecular profiling group including benchmarking algorithms, automating pipelines, and building visualization tools.

• Present results to colleagues, senior management and collaborators.

• Disseminate results in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

• Introduce novel research questions to drive our research forward.

Requirements:

The candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• PhD + 5+ years experience

• Strong scientific credentials in computational biology.

• Expertise in machine learning algorithms, and in programming languages such as R, python, bash.

• Experience analyzing at least some of: bulk RNA-Seq, single-cell RNA-seq, metabolomics, proteomics, lipidomics, and/or epigenetic data.

• Strong communication skills.

• Team orientation.

Preferred job requirements

• Familiarity with eQTL methods and interpretation

• Experience with cloud computing, and in building databases and visualization tools.

This is an opportunity to join our select team that is already leading the way in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Apply today and learn more about Regeneron's unwavering commitment to combining good science & good business.

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