The Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine is seeking to recruit an Assistant Professor on the Research Track for their Divisions of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.  Candidates should have a Ph.D. in biostatistics, genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, computational biology, or a related field and a demonstrated interest in applications in molecular and genetic epidemiology.  Our department is one of the leading research departments in cancer and environmental epidemiology, with a large base of studies in the area of genetic epidemiology, including the Multiethnic Cohort Study, the Colorectal Cancer Family Registries, the International Schizophrenia and Bipolar Consortia, the Children’s Health Study of the chronic effects of air pollution, and numerous population-based and family-based studies of other conditions.  The successful candidate will be collaborating on applications of cutting-edge statistical techniques to these studies and will have the opportunity to collaborate on  methodological research in statistical genetics with a large group of internationally recognized leaders in the field.  There are opportunities to teach and guide doctoral students.  CV, personal statement of research interests, and contact information for three references to Duncan Thomas at dthomas@usc.edu.

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