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<div style="text-align:center">PhD in computational disease
systems biology </div>
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<div>A number of PhD positions are available
in the Translational Disease Systems Biology group at The Novo Nordisk
Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR – <a href="http://www.cpr.ku.dk">www.cpr.ku.dk</a>). The
Center was 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 (DSB) 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. </div>
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<div>The Translational Disease Systems
Biology group (<a href="http://www.cpr.ku.dk/research/disease-systems-biology/brunak/">www.cpr.ku.dk/research/disease-systems-biology/brunak/</a>) part of
DSB and led by Søren Brunak, focuses on establishing early competitive
advantages in disease-relevant computational analyses across the general areas
of bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics. </div>
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<div><strong>Job
description</strong> </div>
<div>The PhDs will work in a
multidisciplinary project team. One candidate will work in the EU-ToxRisk
consortium, a H2020-funded pan-European research consortium, aiming at delivering
strategies to enable reliable animal-free hazard and risk assessment of
chemicals. One goal of the EU-ToxRisk
consortium is to integrate advancements in system biology and computational
modeling to define the complex chains of events that link chemical exposure to
toxic outcome. Another candidate 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 clinical, 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
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 is an advantage. </div>
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<div>The candidates will focus on data
analysis using computational systems biology methods. The candidates will
utilize data integration, statistical genetics and pathway-based methods to
identify novel biomarkers associated to toxicology. </div>
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<div><strong>Qualifications </strong></div>
<div>The candidates hold a master degree or
equivalent in biology, genetics, statistics, computational biology,
bioinformatics or a related discipline of biomedical research. Preferably, the
candidates have experience in statistical genetics, genomics, computational
chemistry and knowledge of R. Programming experience is an advantage as is
having worked with big data. Research experience in chemical toxicology is a
plus. Furthermore, the successful candidates have experience within some of the
following areas:</div>
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<ul><li>Bioinformatics and systems biology at
the molecular level </li><li>Experience with toxicology </li><li>Medicine,
pharmacology or genomics </li><li>Project management of interdisciplinary
research projects within translational bioinformatics </li><li>Experience with data structures,
databases, and data architectures </li><li>Knowledge of biomedical resources and
infrastructures </li><li>Competences within statistics and/or
machine learning techniques </li><li>Broad understanding of Healthcare data
from national registries and electronic patient records from hospitals </li><li>Prior research experience with
healthcare terminologies, schemes and ontologies, e.g. ICD9, ICD10, ATC, and
SNOMED CT </li><li>Experience with CDISC </li></ul>
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<div>The
translational disease systems biology group is highly multidisciplinary and
collaborates with many other research groups nationally and internationally.
Strong networking and team player skills are therefore preferred. </div>
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<div><strong>Place
of employment and work </strong></div>
<div>The
employment is at CPR (<a href="http://www.cpr.ku.dk">www.cpr.ku.dk</a>),
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.
The Center organizes seminars with high-profile international speakers and
regular internal research seminars. The selected candidate should expect some
travel activity. <br></div><div><br></div>
<div>For more information on working and living in Denmark,
visit <a href="http://www.ism.ku.dk">www.ism.ku.dk</a> (International staff mobility) and <a href="http://www.workingconditions.ku.dk">www.workingconditions.ku.dk</a>. </div>
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<div><strong>Salary and
terms of employment </strong></div>
<div>The duration of the positions is three
years. It is conditioned upon the candidates´ successful enrollment in the PhD
programme. This requires submission and acceptance of an application
for the specific project formulated by the candidate. The PhD study must
be completed in accordance with The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme
(2013) and the University’s rules on achieving the degree. Salary,
pension and terms of employment are in accordance with the agreement between
the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional
Associations on Academics in the State. Depending on seniority, the monthly
salary begins around 26,000 DKK (ca. 3.450 EUR) plus 17% pension. </div>
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<div>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: <a href="http://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/pension/">http://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/pension/</a> </div>
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<div><strong>Further
information </strong></div>
<div>For further information, please contact Nanna
Birch, <a href="mailto:nanna.birch@cpr.ku.dk">nanna.birch@cpr.ku.dk</a>. </div>
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<div><strong>Application procedure</strong> </div>
<div>Your
application must be submitted electronically by clicking ‘Apply now’
below or via <a href="http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/">http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/ </a> </div>
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<div>Your
application should include the following documents:</div>
<ol><li>Motivated letter of application </li><li>Curriculum vitae, incl. education and experience, publications
(if any), language skills and other skills relevant for the position </li><li>A certified/signed copy of Master of
Science certificate. If not completed, a certified/signed copy of a recent transcript
of records or a written statement from the institution or supervisor will
do</li><li>Names and contact details for two
referees </li></ol>
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<div><strong>Deadline for application: October 31th 2017 </strong></div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Assessment: The selected
applications will be assessed according to the Ministry Order on the
Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities 2012 and the University of
Copenhagen’s guidelines 2013. The Assessment Committee makes a non-prioritized
assessment of the academic qualifications and experience with respect to the
above mentioned area of research, techniques, skills and other requirements
listed in the advertisement. </div>
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<div>You can read about the recruitment
process at <a href="http://www.employment.ku.dk">www.employment.ku.dk</a> </div>
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<div>CPR and
the University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and
welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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