Associate Director, Bioinformatics
Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery (Boston, Massachusetts)

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Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery

Eli Lilly and Company is a leading, innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation with a firm commitment to help people live longer, healthier and more active lives by making breakthroughs in medicines and treatments.

To find the next generation of drugs, we know we need to use next generation technologies and employ the best of the biopharmaceutical industry.

The Integrative Computational Sciences (ICS) group at Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery (LSCDD), provides state-of-the-art computational solutions to enable the global efforts of drug discovery, translational medicine and tailored therapeutics at the post genomic era. 

As an ICS team member, via the development of cutting-edge tools, you will have a global impact on the future of personalized medicine: ‘The Right Drug, at The Right Dose for The Right Patient at The Right Time’!

Associate Director, Bioinformatics

Responsibilities

• The Associate Director, Bioinformatics will lead the Bioinformatics group at the Integrative Computational Sciences department (ICS) at Lilly Singapore Centre for Drug Discovery (LSCDD), towards the development of novel algorithms, data analysis methods and software tools for drug discovery

• The successful candidate will work closely with the Software Engineering group at ICS, and collaborate with the Discovery IT organization in Europe and USA

• He/she will lead and mentor a strong team of bioinformaticians and provide bioinformatics insight and expertise in tailored therapeutic and statistical analyses at the post genomic era

Minimum Requirements:

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Biostatistics/Biophysics or a related discipline

• 5 years’ post-graduation experience

• 2 years’ management experience

• OS: Unix/Linux, Windows

• Programming: C++/C# .Net

• Databases: SQL/mySQL/Oracle

• Scripting: Perl, Shell

• Statistics: SAS/R/S-Plus/Matlab/Partek

Preferred Experience:

• Industry experience in Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Drug Discovery

• Strong publication record in the field of Bioinformatics

• Experience in handling large data sets such as microarrays, proteomics and imaging data

Other Requirements:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate across domains with biologists and chemists in Lilly Drug Discovery Research (DDR) teams in Singapore and Lilly headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

• In-depth understanding, analysis and processing of data from various post genomic technologies and their application towards clinical development of drugs (Statistical analysis and integration of genotyping, gene expression, chromosomal copy number and structural computational biology datasets)

• Expertise in methods and technologies utilized for integrative analysis of biosciences and clinical data, such as ontologies, semantic web technologies, data exchange standards

• Expertise in heterogeneous data-mining/visualization methods and predictive modeling/simulation techniques relevant to biomarker platforms utilized in the development of tailored therapeutics (molecular profiling, genetic and epigenetic technologies)

• Wide understanding of commercially available bioinformatics/clinical genomics tools and databases

• Demonstrated learning agility

• Excellent communication and collaborative skills, and a proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams

•  Able to be flexible in working hours (to coordinate with different time-zones), and the willingness to travel is a requirement

To apply: http://www.lscdd.lilly.com.sg/lscdd/careers/

Company website: www.lscdd.lilly.com.sg