Position
About the Department
Our Research & Development organization brings together the best minds in life science innovation. The teams located in facilities in Lexington, Watertown, Cambridge and Seattle reflect the full R&D continuum, from early research through late-stage clinical development. Here, we are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. Our R&D hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.
The Department of Omics Disease Understanding (ODU) under AI & Digital Innovation (ADI) Digital Biology focuses on disease understanding and patient stratification based on patient cohort data. The use of cutting-edge computational techniques to subtype patients into groups and understand disease mechanism is a key objective for ODU. These activities focus on prioritizing specific research questions about (1) the use of omics and other data to identify patient subtypes and endophenotypes (2) the use of omics data to discover disease aetiologies causal in specific patient subtypes.
ADI Digital Biology is a global department with colleagues in China, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the United States. ADI is supporting the digital journey across all our therapy areas in Novo Nordisk Research and Early Discovery (R&ED). In ADI, we work in multidisciplinary teams – in strong collaboration with all areas across R&ED and R&ED IT. We participate in drug development projects across the value chain, from early discovery to pre-clinical development. We engage in external collaborations to ensure access to the latest research and technology enablers, and we automate our labs and processes, and we focus on developing and retaining top talents.
The Position
We are seeking a data scientist with experience in omics and genetics data to drive our disease understanding efforts in cardiometabolic disorders. You will be responsible for (1) delivering analysis of genetics, proteomics, metabolomics, RNA-seq and other omics (2) developing/implementing computational methods to leverage large-scale human omics data for patient subtyping and disease mechanism understanding (3) leveraging human omics data to address emerging research questions from obesity, Type 2 Diabetes(T2D), etc. Experience with genetics, epigenomics, imaging, spatial transcriptomics, or other modalities is a plus, as is experience with epidemiology, clinical trial biomarker analysis.
The role will be accountable to early discovery projects initiative in Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, collaborating with scientists from Therapeutic Areas (TA), other ADI departments, Global Development and External collaborations. You will play a crucial role in driving human omics data application in research and drug development.
***Please note we are open to hiring at the Lead Data Scientist level commensurate with experience***
Relationships
Reports to: Head of Omics Disease Understanding
In this role, you will enjoy the opportunity to collaborate with scientists from TA, Precision Medicine, Machine Intelligence, Research Engineering, Data & Knowledge Discovery, Global Development, and others across US, UK and Denmark.
External relationships include commercial and academic collaboration partners.
Essential Functions
Physical Requirements
10-20% overnight travel required, including international destinations
Qualifications
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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