Senior Research Assistant

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is the cancer research agency of the World Health Organization (WHO) and is based in Lyon, France. The objective of IARC is to promote international collaboration in cancer research.

The Epigenomics and Mechanisms Branch (EGM) conducts hypothesis-driven studies as well as data-driven mechanistic studies with a special emphasis aimed at advancing the understanding of cancer causation and the mechanisms of tumorigenesis and promoting international collaboration, the core activities of IARC. EGM’s ambition is also to place more emphasis on contributions to translational studies, through the discovery of mechanism-based biomarkers of exposure and risk stratification. EGM’s studies are interdisciplinary in nature, and the major EGM programmes promote and advance synergistic collaborations with other IARC laboratory-based scientists, epidemiologists, and evidence synthesis experts, as well as with numerous international collaboration groups.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Head of the Epigenomics and Mechanisms Branch (EGM), the incumbent provides central computational and bioinformatic support to projects that investigate the relevant genomic and epigenomic alterations that underlie the mechanistic bases of cancer formation, as well as their potential utility in biomarker discovery and validation. The incumbent works in close collaboration with Scientists in the Branch, their external collaborators and with the broader bioinformatics community at IARC.
Description Of Duties:
Under the direct supervision of the EGM’s Deputy Head, the incumbent is expected to:

Provide computational (programming) and bioinformatic support to the EGM Branch by: 

Required Qualifications:
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