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The University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD) is the largest hospital in the state capital and one of the most important medical centers in North Rhine-Westphalia. The 9,300 employees in UKD and subsidiaries are committed to ensuring that over 45,000 patients can receive inpatient treatment and 270,000 outpatient care every year. The UKD stands for international excellence in health care, research and teaching, as well as for innovative and safe diagnostics, therapy and prevention. Patients benefit from the intensive interdisciplinary collaboration between the 60 clinics and institutes. The particular strength of the university clinic is the close integration of clinical and research to ensure the safe application of new methods. The medicine of tomorrow is being created at the UKD. Every day.

The Institute of Pathology of the University Hospital Düsseldorf is looking for a new position from 01.01.2025 until 31.08.2027.

Bioinformatician (m/f/d)

The appointment is made within the framework of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG according to § 2 para. 2) initially for a limited period until the end of the project on 31 August 2027.

In the consortial ENDOFERT project on endometriosis funded by the BMBF, a sub-project is dedicated to spatial transcriptomics. Technologies such as COSMX (Nanostring), Xenium (10x Genomics) or CODEX assays are used. In addition, scripts will also be developed using open source tools (QuPath, ImageJ etc.).
The project analyzes the microenvironment of endometriosis, which will be compared with previous experience in the field of carcinogenesis. Integration with the Bio-Informatics Core Unit and international network partners also enables rapid access to the topic. The instrumental equipment offers excellent starting conditions due to the acquired digital tissue microarray platform and the GPU expansion of the HPC infrastructure at the Düsseldorf site.

Your area of responsibility:

Bioinformatic processing and analysis of spatial OMICS data sets
Establishment of required bioinformatic analysis software in close coordination with the core bioinformatics unit
Interface management between TMA platform, CUBI, Core Unit Spatial Omics.
Basic bioinformatic data analysis of sequencing data

Your profile:

Completed university degree (Master or PhD) in bioinformatics, computational biology or a related field
Interest in interdisciplinary research
Experience in project management
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Strong ability to work in a team

We offer:

A collaborative work environment in a fresch and innovative team
Well equipped laboratory and office space
The opportunity to join the Heine Research Academies (HeRA) for professional development and networking, to participate in mentoring programs, and to receive support for research funding and travel expenses
An exciting and diversified position in a pleasant working atmosphere
Family-friendly working environment, for example with a day care center for children
Discounted employee ticket
Staff accommodation/apartment
Depending on the applicant's personal qualifications, the position will be grouped according to collective bargaining agreements up to pay group 13 TV-L.

Your contact person for technical questions is Prof. Dr. Tilman Rau, email;

Remuneration is in accordance with the provisions of the TV-L in pay group 13.

The employment contract is concluded with the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.

Severely disabled applicants will be given preferential consideration in case of equal suitability.

By sending the application documents, the applicant agrees that they become the property of the University Hospital Düsseldorf and will not be returned for reasons of cost.

Applications from women are explicitly desired. Women will be given preferential consideration in cases of equal suitability, ability and professional performance.

Please send your written application with the usual application documents within two weeks of publication of this advertisement, preferably by e-mail, to the following address:

email
Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
D 01.2.1
Code number: 434E/24,
Moorenstr. 5,
40225 Düsseldorf

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Updated at 10/31/2024

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