Senior Research Scientist I

The Daly Lab and the Medical and Population Genetics Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is looking for a Senior Scientist l to join our team focused on understanding the genetics of human disease. This individual will help develop a dynamic multi-disciplinary effort to utilize biobank data and biospecimens to convert genetic discoveries into insights into disease mechanisms and biomarkers, igniting needed progress in therapeutics. This role is both tactical - supporting the successful development of FinnGen and joint partnerships across biobanks - and scientific - helping to systematize the prosecution of genetic discoveries and developing strategies for integrating germline variation disease research with insights from somatic and perturbation research in cancer.

The position will afford an opportunity to grow in a high throughput technical environment for a bright, logically minded, experienced scientist with project management experience. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative and will work well in a team. The candidate must be detail oriented, enjoy working with data systems for both tracking research workflows and performing independent human genetics analyses. The candidate should have a background in genetics or genomics research in cancer and inherited disease and be comfortable working with data and databases.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES:

• Contributor to the project management team in FinnGen
• Join FinnGen management meetings to decide priority of project activities pertaining to project deliverables
• Coordinate and track partnerships across multiple biobanks, including ensuring joint multi-biobank analyses are designed, tracked and delivered to the Broad, as well as the public, research community
• Develop scientific strategy for, and oversee implementation of, the integration of somatic mutation and perturbation databases from cancer research with biobank discovery efforts
• Lead inherited cancer variation discovery research using FinnGen and multi-biobank resources, and coordinate follow-up computational and experimental investigation
• Facilitate multi-lab meetings in support of new human genetics initiatives to coordinate agenda & document minutes/action items
• Track multi-lab variant to mechanism study progress
• Drafting manuscripts, reports, letters, lecture presentations, email communications, and other written materials as needed

• At least 5 years of directly related research and/or project management experience with a PhD in cancer biology or related field strongly preferred
• Excellent project management skills with demonstrated ability to effectively work in a matrixed environment keeping teams, projects and deliverables on track and evaluating plans and methods, revising as appropriate
• Must possess a demonstrated ability to interact with an interdisciplinary group for both professional staff and academic trainees; including project managers, data analysts, computer scientists, and lab biologists
• A strong understanding of cancer biology, research experience in cancer strongly preferred
• Experience communicating with lab personnel and computational scientists
• Comfortable learning new software and technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills essential
• Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience supervising scientific staff preferred
• Experience with bioinformatics tools and public genetics and genomics databases preferred
• Experience communicating with international collaborators preferred