4 postdoc positions at UiO, Norway

*Four postdoc positions in Biostatistics are offered at the University of
Oslo (UiO), Norway. The positions are each three years appointments.*

*Call:* https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/apply/

*Deadline for submission: 30th April 2020IMPORTANT! Deadline for contacting
the UiO PI: 31st March 2020*
*SCIENTIA FELLOWS* is a transnational research fellowship programme in the
field of Health Life Sciences at UiO, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 under
the Maria Skłodowska-Curie scheme.

The purpose of the three years postdoc is to produce scientific results of
the highest quality, in collaboration with your host at UiO and its other
partners. You will also be part of UiO’s career development programme
designed for researchers at the beginning of their career, including our
Health Innovator course which aims to provide researchers with tools and
insight into how innovation can be put to work for the benefit of patients,
the healthcare system and society. At completion of your three year term,
your academic profile will be such that you can successfully apply to the
best research positions worldwide.
All four positions will be at the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and
Epidemiology (OCBE), UiO (
https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/), and in
collaboration with the Oslo University Hospital.

*Eligibility:*

– You possess a PhD degree (at the latest by 1 July 2020) in statistics,
biostatistics, mathematics, computer science or other related disciplines
with a documented competence in statistics, biostatistics or mathematics.
– You have not been resident in Norway for more than 12 months in the
last 3 years.

You apply for each position separately, for just one or more. Mention
clearly which position you are applying for. See descriptions below and
here:
https://www.biginsight.no/news/2020/2/24/scientia-fellow-ii-postdoc-positions
.

*If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact the
corresponding UiO PI by sending her/him an email with your CV and links to
your papers as early as possible and by March 20th, 2020.* You and your UiO
host PI will identify common research interests and discuss the concept of
your research proposal. While you are responsible for the research
proposal, you will discuss your application via Skype and email, and your
host will help you to write a good proposal. Finally, in order to apply for
the position, you have to submit the research proposal (and other documents
as specified in the call) by April 30th, 2020.

A Fellow of the Scientia Fellows programme will be employed at UiO for
three years. The place of work is the UiO campus in Oslo. The gross salary
of a Fellow will amount to 515 200 NOK/year. UiO will cover full health
insurance and pay towards your pension with the Norwegian pension fund. As
employee in Norway you have several welfare benefits. In addition UiO will
support research costs (laptop, travel, courses etc) with 54 600 NOK per
year. For further information related to moving and settling in Norway,
please visit the website of the International Staff Mobility Office (
https://www.uio.no/english/about/jobs/ismo/), which will also assist
incoming fellows and their families with relocation to UiO. For more
information, contact the hosts mentioned below.

Detailed information and how to apply can be found here:
https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/apply

*Postdoc positions offered:*

*1. Statistical learning for personalised cancer therapy*
UiO PI Host: Manuela Zucknick (
https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/manuelkz/)
Summary: We develop new multivariate (multi-task) methods to improve
prediction of drug sensitivity or synergistic effects in drug combinations
in large-scale pharmacogenomic screens based on molecular characterization
of cancer cell lines and patient samples as well as properties of the
drugs. One particular challenge is the integration of multiple
heterogeneous data sources, for example via multiple kernel learning.

*2. Scalable inference for genomic data integration*UiO PI Hosts: Valeria
Vitelli (https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/valeriv/) and David
Swanson (https://sojourningnorth.github.io/)
Summary: The project focuses on scalable statistical methods for the
integration and analysis of multi-omic data sources. We plan development
of horizontal (multi-omic) and vertical (meta-analytic) integrative
Bayesian clustering methods during project course with intended application
to disease subtyping and signature/biomarker discovery.

*3. Biostatistics and/or computational biology in precision medicine and
systems pharmacology*UiO PI Hosts: Arnoldo Frigessi (
https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/frigessi/) and Kjetil Tasken
(https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/people/aca/ktasken/index.html)
Summary: To individually tailor new treatments, we have established a
laboratory and computational pipeline to test drugs and drug combinations
on blood of individual patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and
multiple myeloma. This project will develop new statistical and machine
learning methodologies, algorithms and computational approaches, to predict
the efficacy of drugs and drug combinations, including their synergetic
power.

*4. Biostatistics and/or bioinformatics in precision medicine for head and
neck cancer*Hosts: Arnoldo Frigessi (
https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/frigessi/) and Eivind Hovig (
https://www.ous-research.no/hovig/)
Summary: This project aims to identify early signals for head and neck
cancer, biomarkers for efficacy of treatment, prediction of prognosis of
the cancer, at individual level. We will develop new statistical and
machine learning methodologies, algorithms and computational approaches,
including deep learning based strategies, exploiting one of the largest
international collection of data based on clinical trials for this type of
cancer, with unique longitudinal follow-up data for survivors.

Valeria Vitelli

Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway

mailto: valeria.vitelli@medisin.uio.no