Data Analyst Research Neurology kl

Position: Data Analyst RESEARCH NEUROLOGY kl
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The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.

Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

New budgeted research role
** Job Summary
** Summary    A computational data analyst position is available to support the Khurana Lab and Division of Movement Disorders at Brigham and Woman’s Hospital. We seek an applicant to i) perform analysis of high-throughput genomic and other omics data to enable novel discovery in Parkinson’s disease and related degenerative movement disorders in collaboration with computer scientists in the laboratories of Shamil Sunyaev at Harvard Medical School, and ii) manage multi-omic and clinical data collected through the Harvard Biomarker Study, a longitudinal study of Parkinson’s disease patients and healthy controls.

We study the molecular basis of synucleinopathies such as, Parkinson’s, multiple systems atrophy, progressive supra nuclear palsy, etc with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets. We develop and utilize a range of multi-omic tools to analyze in vitro and in vivo experimental models as well as human genetic and single cell datasets. The Khurana Lab operates within a highly collaborative environment where both bench biologist and computer scientists work together with clinicians, clinician-scientists and genetics counselors.

In this case, the applicant will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to facilitate understanding the genetic basis of these diseases with the goal of developing precision medicines and gene-targeted therapies. Beyond genomic and omics analyses, the candidate will work with genetic study coordinators to ensure secure storage, update, and maintenance of paired genetic and clinical data from HBS 2.0 and facilitate downstream discovery.

Strong computational, organizational, and communication skills are desired for this position. More senior candidates will be considered for a Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist positions with Research Associate appointments at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
No    Essential Functions  - Performs common/rare variant analyses including repeat and long-read sequencing analyses in collaboration with computer scientists in labs of Shamil Suyaev and Peter Park facilitating novel gene discovery.
-Manages HBS study database in collaboration with Mass General Brigham IT services and genetic study coordinators. This includes creating a relational database in SQL, regularly updating the data tables by pulling data from third-party software platforms, backing up the data at regular intervals, performing quality control, validation and error detection on each data point, and ensuring data security and integrity.
-Runs standard omics analysis pipelines on datasets generated in-house as well by collaborators via in vitro and in vivo experimental models.
-Applies and adapts existing statistical and omics tools to achieve new biological insights from unique biological datasets.
-Works closely with bench scientists to understand and help accomplish their research goals.
-Writes and runs basic queries as needed.  
-Assists in maintaining existing reporting systems.  
-Contributes to presentations to key stakeholders.  
-Works with senior analysts to design, maintain, and distribute reports.  
-Learn leading practice analysis methodologies.  
-Conducts continuous analysis of current performance and accurately forecast data trends.
** Qualifications
* * Education Bachelors required. MSc or PhD in Computer Science,…