<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">PhD Student positions in Disease Systems Biology at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b><i><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></i></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">A number of
PhD positions are available in the Translational Disease Systems Biology
group at The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein
Research (CPR – </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.cpr.ku.dk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.cpr.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">).
The Center has been established at the Faculty of Health and Medical
Sciences, University
of Copenhagen, to promote basic and applied discovery research on human
proteins of medical relevance. The Center comprises a wide range of
expertise and resources including proteomics, protein production,
bioinformatics and general characterization of disease
mechanisms. The Programme for Disease Systems Biology consists of two
research groups covering many systems level aspects of biology and
medicine, including the integration of molecular-level data and
healthcare data, for example laboratory test data and biomedical
texts. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">If you still have questions about the positions, please contact Professor Søren Brunak:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:jobs@cpr.ku.dk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">jobs@cpr.ku.dk</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:jobs@cpr.ku.dk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"></span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Responsibilities and tasks</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
Translational Disease Systems Biology group led by Søren Brunak focuses
on establishing early competitive advantage in disease-relevant
computational analysis across the general areas of bioinformatics,
chemoinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics. The PhD
students will work on data-driven models of temporal disease development
using a combination of molecular data and data from
the healthcare sector, where the latter has the form of registry data
or complete electronic patient records. These models will in part be
descriptive and show how different diseases and diagnosis follow each
other over long periods of time and in part predictive
in the sense that longitudinal patterns of illnesses, medication and
procedures will indicate future events. The models may be augmented by
molecular level biomarker data from genomics or proteomics further
increasing the predictive power. Prior knowledge
of disease classification schemes and standard vocabularies will be an
advantage.<b> <br></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><b><br></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Projected start date: Autumn 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Qualifications</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The successful candidates will have strong qualifications or experience within several of the following areas:<b> </b></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Bioinformatics and systems biology at the molecular level</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
Medicine or pharmacology</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Knowledge of biomedical resources and infrastructures</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Healthcare data from registries and electronic patient records</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Competence in statistics and/or machine learning techniques</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Prior research experience with health care terminologies, schemes and ontologies, e.g. ICD9 and ICD10</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The
translational disease systems biology is highly multidisciplinary and
collaborates with many other research groups nationally and
internationally.
Strong networking and team player skills are therefore preferred. As
the candidate may run several projects in parallel, strong
organizational skills and the ability to keep an overview are
important. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">A medical or pharmaceutical background will be a strong advantage. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Formal requirements</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">To be
accepted for the positions, it is a condition that your Master of
Science degree is considered to be equivalent to a Danish Master of
Science.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">It is a
prerequisite that the PhD candidate is enrolled as a PhD student at the
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences according to the rules
stipulated in the Ministerial order on the PhD programme at the
universities (PhD order) from the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and
Higher Education and the
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/apply/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">guidelines for the PhD programme</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Place of employment and work</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The employment is at CPR (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.cpr.ku.dk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.cpr.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">),
University of Copenhagen, located in central Copenhagen. The research
environment at CPR is ambitious and international, with approx. 30
different nationalities currently represented. The Center comprises
modern laboratories, supercomputer resources and state-of-the-art
facilities within protein science. Seminars with high-profile
international speakers and regular internal research seminars are
organized at the Center. The selected candidate should expect some
travel activity. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">For more information on working and living in Denmark visit
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ism.ku.dk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.ism.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> (International staff mobility) and
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.workingconditions.ku.dk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">www.workingconditions.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Terms of salary and employment</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Salary,
pension and terms of employment will be in accordance with the agreement
between the Ministry of Finance and The Academics Central
organization. Currently, the monthly salary is around 25,500-30,800 DKK
(around 3,400-4,100 €) plus 17.1 % in pension contribution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">The Danish
Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional
Associations (AC) have agreed on a protocol that makes it possible
for all international researchers employed by the University to achieve
a pension exemption, where the pension will be paid as salary. For more
information about the different pension schemes:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/pension/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/pension/</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Duration:
</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">3 years</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Application procedure</span></b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Your application should be submitted electronically to <a href="http://employment.ku.dk/phd/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://employment.ku.dk/phd/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="color:black"><a href="http://employment.ku.dk/phd/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"></span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Your application should include the following documents:</span></p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
Motivated letter of application</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Curriculum vitae, incl. education and experience</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
<span lang="EN-US">Copy of diplomas/degree certificate(s)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black">
List of publications</li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Deadline for application: 1 September 2015</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">After the
expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment
manager selects applicants for assessment on the advice of the
Appointments Committee. All applicants are then immediately notified
whether their application has been passed for assessment by an expert
assessment committee. Selected applicants are notified of the
composition of the committee and each applicant has the
opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that relates to
the applicant him/herself. You can read about the recruitment process at
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://employment.ku.dk/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://employment.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">For further information about the position or the process, please contact CPR:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:jobs@cpr.ku.dk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">jobs@cpr.ku.dk</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">CPR and the
University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and
welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless
of personal background.</span></p></div>