About this opportunity
BioSpace lists this Principal Scientist - Cancer Early Detection opportunity in englewood, New Jersey. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
ICR's Cancer Early Detection program is focused on building early warning systems out of arrays of blood- and urine-based biomarkers from cancer patients and healthy controls, focusing on early stage cancers. We're using machine learning to predict cancer signatures to enable early intervention when cancer is most treatable. We're hiring a Principal Scientist to lead our Cancer Early Detection Team.
With ICR, You'll Get To
Lead a cutting-edge cancer biomarkers group with the goal of detecting cancer at its earliest stages
Contribute highly practical and readily translatable pan-cancer screening/early detection, diagnostic, prevention and therapeutic ideas
Quantify and track cancer biomarkers, including CTCs, cfDNA, serum, plasma, and urine proteins, RNA, metabolites, driver-gene mutations, epigenetic modifications, etc
Collaborate with ICR's Biomarkers Team to perform molecular and cellular cancer prevention screening assays, under a personalized medicine paradigm
Please Apply If You Have
A PhD, MD or both
At least 10 years of cancer research experience, preferably in early detection and biomarkers
Current and in-depth knowledge of pan-cancer: screening, early detection, biomarkers, diagnostic prediction, genetics, prevention, and chemical and vaccine-therapeutics (practical and experimental)
Programming experience in Python
Solid grasp of biostatistics, especially probability theory
Experience with prediction modeling and machine learning, including experience using proper scoring rules
Ideally, You'll Also Have
Expert knowledge and understanding of worldwide cancer biomarker and detection assay development pipelines
Experience with cell-based assays, immunofluorescent microscopy, qPCR, flow cytometry, single-cell genomics, RNAseq, cell culture, organoid culture, Illumina NextSeq 550, DNA methylation sequencing, ddPCR, Luminex, clinical chemistry instrumentation, Kryptor, Access 2, robotic liquid handling (e.g. Tecan), Vortex, and DepArray
Experience with protein, RNA, and small metabolite cancer biomarker analysis
And You'll Need
An easygoing, friendly personality
The ability to work in the United States without sponsorship
Salary
Starting base pay range: $165,000/yr - $215,000/yr
Starting additional compensation range: $7,500/yr - $20,000/yr
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Worksite address
englewood, NJ, 07631, US
Who can apply
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