德克萨斯大学MD安德森癌症中心Dr. Peter Van Loo实验室招聘博士后

M.D.安德森癌症中心(MD Anderson Cancer Center)，始建于1941年，位于美国南部德克萨斯州的休斯顿市，是世界公认的权威的肿瘤专科医院。是1971年美国“国家癌症行动”计划指定的最早的3个综合癌症治疗中心之一。也是目前39个肿瘤医学会指定的综合性癌症治疗中心之一; 是世界一流的癌症诊治、研究中心。该中心拥有1.9万名员工，每年接诊11余万名癌症患者，培训专科住院医师1100人。

该中心为癌症患者提供的治疗包括靶向疗法、手术、化疗、放疗和质子疗法、免疫疗法以及多种疗法的联合治疗。跨学科的专家团队通过密切合作为患者制定最佳的治疗方案。中心目前拥有10个NCI优势研究项目的资助，包括：脑瘤、胰腺癌、乳腺癌、膀胱癌、前列腺癌、白血病、卵巢癌、子宫内膜癌、肺癌和黑色素瘤。

Job Description

Cancer Genomics and Evolution Laboratory, Prof. Dr. Peter Van Loo, Department of Genetics

We seek multiple talented and motivated postdocs in computational biology to join the Cancer Genomics and Evolution Laboratory of Peter Van Loo at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The post holders will spearhead projects in large-scale cancer genomics and evolution.

The Cancer Genomics and Evolution laboratory

Our researchfocuses on large-scale pan-cancer genomics to gain insight into the genes, mutational processes and evolution of cancer. Our work is highly data-driven, with a focus on large-scale data analysis to gain broad biological insight and on the development of computational methods to enable conceptually novel analyses. The research group is mostly computational with a small wet-lab component.

Since its inception, members of the Cancer Genomics laboratory have co-authored 18 papers in Nature, Science or Cell. Recent successes include pan-cancer studies of the evolutionary history of cancer (Gerstunget al., Nature 2020), intra-tumor heterogeneity (Dentro et al., Cell 2021), the mutational landscape in non-unique regions of the human genome (Tarabichi et al., Nature Biotechnology 2021), and biallelic mutations (Demeulemeester et al., Nature Genetics 2022).

Position qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in computational biology (bioinformatics, genomics, …) and research experience in the field of cancer genomics, although we welcome applications from candidates with diverse educational backgrounds, including computational biology, physics and (bio)statistics, biology or medicine. Applicants must have a proven publication record.

A computational background is not strictly necessary, but you must be keen to work in a dry setting. Prior experience with handling massively parallel sequencing data is considered an advantage.

Postdocs will spearhead projects in cancer genomics and tumor evolution. They are expected to lead their own project, contribute to other projects on a collaborative basis (both within the lab and with external collaborators) and guide PhD students in their research.The ability to work in a team is essential.

How to apply

Please email pvanloo@mdanderson.org (1) a 1-page cover letter stating your general career objectives and research interests, (2) a CV with publication list (max. 3 pages), and (3) a list of three references.