Senior Bioinformatician

The University of Manchester is seeking a talented senior bioinformatician to lead the bioinformatics team within the Next Generation Phenotyping and Diagnostics (NGPD) theme of the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre. The aim of this National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded project is to accelerate the adoption of high throughput diagnostic techniques through improving our understanding of disease complexity and multimorbidity in the context of high deprivation, social and ethnic diversity. At the core of the NGPD theme we will create a bioinformatics team, comprising 2 bioinformaticians and 2 software developers, which you will lead, under the supervision of Prof David Wedge. Collectively, your team will have expertise in the analysis of multilevel omic and imaging data; data integration and machine learning; risk prediction. This expertise will be used to study key disease areas including fibrosis, eye disease and cancer.

The School/Department is strongly committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for gender equality in higher education. The School/Department holds a Silver Award which recognises their good practice in relation to gender; including flexible working arrangements, family-friendly policies, and support to allow staff achieve a good work-life balance. We particularly welcome applications from women for this post. All appointment will be made on merit. For further information, please visit:

https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/about/equality/

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Professor David Wedge

Email: david.wedge@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.