Research Bioinformaticians (2-3 positions)

UWA Centre for Child Health Research

BIOINFORMATICS PROGRAM

The UWA Centre for Child Health Research, located at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (TICHR) in Perth, WA, is looking for up to three scientists with varying levels of experience and research background to help develop its Bioinformatics Program. Successful appointees will collaborate closely with biomedical researchers who use technologies such as microarray analysis to identify novel pathways associated with disease causation and susceptibility, and to define targets for disease treatment and prevention. Current clinical areas of research address leukaemia, other cancers, asthma, allergy, and infectious diseases, while methodological research areas include genetic statistics, causal pathway modeling, spatial analysis, and data linkage analysis within complex datasets.

Applicants should have a degree, preferably post-graduate, in either:
1. Biology, genetics, molecular biology, or other related areas, together with computational or statistical expertise and interest, or
2. Statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, biostatistics, or other related areas, together with biological expertise and interest.

Appointees will be involved in cross-disciplinary teams applying new methods to address important medical research problems, and should thus have an interest in both biology and biostatistics or computing. We are particularly interested in people with experience in developing computing and statistical methodology and algorithms, and using/testing existing biological and bioinformatics software.

TICHR has strong collaborations with many scientists in medical biology and is supported by an excellent IT department. It is also a collaborator in the NHMRC funded Australian Medical Bioinformatics Resource (AMBeR) a national initiative to improve Bioinformatics capacity in Australia.

These jobs will be stimulating entry points for statistically trained graduates/postgraduates into the world of bioinformatics and molecular biology, or for biologically trained graduates/post-graduates into biostatistics and bioinformatics. The appointments will be for up to 5 years in the first instance.

Salary Ranges: Research Assistant : $38,146-$51,685
Research Officer: $48,149-$58,485
Research Fellow: $60,526-$64,608;
Senior Research Fellow $66,646-$76,850;
Principal Research Fellow $80,247-$88,408.

Superannuation at 17% and salary packaging benefits ($16,050 pa tax free) are also available. The level of appointment within the above ranges will be negotiable and depend on qualifications, experience, and relative performance against the appointment criteria. Further information about the positions including selection criteria and application requirements can be obtained from the web site, www.ichr.uwa.edu.au or by calling Reception on (08) 9489 7777.

Applications with statements addressing the selection criteria should include a CV and the names and contact details of two professional referees. Please send to Julia Emmerson, Human Resources Manager, email: juliae@ichr.uwa.edu.au, or mail: Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, PO Box 855, West Perth, WA, 6872. Closing date for applications is 24 September 2007