CBSE at Santa Cruz seeks cancer genomics director

The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) at UC Santa Cruz invites applications from outstanding scientists for the position of CBSE Cancer Genomics Director.

We seek an independent, creative scientist with cancer research experience to guide the group in building our cancer genomics data analysis platform into an essential tool for cancer research and an engine for personalized, genome-based cancer treatment. The successful candidate will extend our existing cancer research collaborations, conceptualize new research directions, oversee their implementation by our outstanding postdoctoral students and scientific programming staff, write papers and present results at scientific meetings, and apply for additional grants. Our exceptional collegiality and interdisciplinary collaborations make UCSC an excellent environment for an innovative scientist who can benefit from and contribute to the rapid growth in the sciences and engineering at UCSC.

UCSC Cancer Genomics is the primary integrative bioinformatics group for several cancer-related projects, including the following: visualization and analysis for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/), which is the National Cancer Institute's flagship cancer genomics project; the Stand Up to Cancer project (http://www.standup2cancer.org/su2c/about_us/scientific_dream_teams), related to finding alternative therapies for breast cancer subtypes; the national I-SPY breast cancer trial (http://tr.nci.nih.gov/iSpy); a collaboration with the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center to build a central data portal for pancreas cancer genomics studies; and integrated epigenome maps of embryonic and adult stem cells. The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (http://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu) is rapidly expanding with support from a number of additional collaborations. This browser is built on the popular UCSC Genome Browser, which receives an average of 600,000 page requests per day and is accessed by 80,000 different biomedical researchers monthly, making it one of the most important and widely used web-based resources for biomedical research.

This position will include a substantial budget, an existing group of 6 people, and the capability to hire additional team members to match the anticipated rapid growth of the project. The ideal candidate will have either a background in medical research with an appreciation of the power of the genomic approach or a genomics background with extensive experience in cancer research and an appreciation of the importance and the complexities of dealing with human subject data.

Full information: http://apo.ucsc.edu/academic_employment/jobs/T10-34.pdf

Our exceptional collegiality and interdisciplinary collaborations make UCSC an excellent environment for an innovative scientist who can benefit from and contribute to the rapid growth in the sciences and engineering at UCSC.

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by May 27, 2010.