Dear all, My company located in Innsbruck, Austria, has an opening for a biostatistician. If you have any interest, feel free to contact me or Dr Markus Speiser (markus.speiser*at*biocrates.com). Best regards, David ################## Biostatistician (m/f) Job Description BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG is a leading metabolomics company using a mass-spectrometry based technology platform. Its products and services extract, deliver, and present rich information residing in metabolite networks with unprecedented speed, low cost, and high reliability. Biocrates? quantitative approach enables immediate identification of metabolites, measurement of their absolute concentrations, and mapping to their respective pathways. We are looking for a PhD holder in Bioinformatics with a minimum of three years working experience to support our biomarker team in the identification, validation and further development of biomarkers. The chosen candidate will be part of our multidisciplinary team conducting studies to discover and develop diagnostic biomarkers, as well as biomarkers for the characterization of disease models and drug effects, including side effects. Essential functions * Analyzing omics data and integration of Metabolomics with other omics data- selection of likely metabolite, protein and RNA targets for quantification. * Contributing to presentations, patent applications, scientific publications and reporting on project funding. Requirements * Candidate can work independently and is highly motivated, creative and result-oriented. * Problem solving skills and strong team orientation are fundamental. * Good command of the English language (both oral and written). * Candidate can statistically analyze and interpret metabolomics data and other biological data and be part of a multi disciplinary research team that conducts metabolomics studies to discover biomarkers for the characterization of disease models, drug and side effects. * Candidate can control the quality of metabolomics data and other biological data obtained from clinicals samples / animal samples and prepare data for analysis applying various normalisation methods. * Candidate can provide statistical input to study protocols, statistical analysis and study plans / integrated study statistical summaries for biomarker trials including reports; provide listings, summary tables, and figures?patient data scientific standards for studies.? * Candidate can explore, test and optimise classification and classification methods to enable the identification and refinement of marker sets as diagnostic tools for selected disease areas. * Candidate can improve methods and procedures to establish and ensure the highest quality of work and results. * Knowledge of existing bioinformatics software tools for gene, protein and metabolite identification and expression analysis desirable; practical experience with omics data analysis software (e.g. R package), comparative analysis, data mining, scientific visualization and experimental design a plus. * Background in life sciences strongly preferred. ##### Contact Dr. Markus Speiser BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG Innrain 66 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Tel: +43 512 579823 email: markus.speiser*at*biocrates.com __________________________________ David Enot Biomarker Research BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG Innrain 66 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria Tel. +43 (512) 57 98 23 - 4221 Fax. +43 (512) 57 98 23 - 4270 www.biocrates.com "Creating knowledge for health" __________________________________ Diese Nachricht und alle Anh?nge sind vertraulich und nur f?r den (die) darin angegebenen Empf?nger bestimmt. Jeder Gebrauch, jede Weitergabe oder Vervielf?ltigung durch andere als den (die) bestimmten Empf?nger wird von uns sowohl straf- wie auch zivilrechtlich verfolgt. Sollten Sie diese Sendung irrt?mlich erhalten haben, verst?ndigen Sie bitte unverz?glich per E-M ail den Absender und l?schen Sie die Sendung samt allf?lligPer E-Mail abgegebene Erkl?rungen sind unverbindlich und dienen ausschlie?lich der Information, au?er in jenen F?llen, in denen dies gesondert gegenteilig vereinbart wurde. This message and any attachment thereof are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient any use, distribution, copying or disclosure will be prosecuted. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment thereof from your system. Correspondence via e-mail is without obligation and is only for information, unless otherwise agreed in a specific case.