Bioinformatician

**Position: Bioinformatician (Clinical Proteomics Unit)
**Last date of Application: 30/5/2023**

**Appointing Organisation**

Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre

Tata Medical Center, Kolkata

**The Tata Medical Center and the Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre**

The Tata Medical Center (TMC) is a multispecialty institution for tertiary cancer care based in

New Town, Kolkata. At TMC, clinical and research activities are integrated to provide state-of
- the-art care for patients with cancer. This integration is enabled by the Tata Translational Cancer

Research Centre (TTCRC), the research arm of TMC. TTCRC is within a dedicated academic

space and spread over 3 floors. At TTCRC, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists,

academics and industry professionals collaborate to develop a systems medicine approach in

cancer research. This approach is focussed on developing innovative, indigenous, cost-effective

and equitable strategies to improve cancer diagnosis; develop treatments that match disease

characteristics and are adapted to treatment response; and, identify prognostic and predictive

disease biomarkers. These strategies are multi-dimensional and involve an iterative pathway

that include clinical studies, high-throughput laboratory investigations, computational strategies

to integrate, analyse and model data, hypothesis-based pre-clinical studies and evidence-based

translation of findings to clinical practice.

**The opportunity at TTCRC Clinical Proteomics Unit**

We are looking for a talented bioinformatician or a computational biologist with excellent omics

data analysis skills to join our proteomics group. In this position you will work as part of the

proteomics team at TTCRC. Currently the facility is equipped with Sciex TripleTOF 6600 Mass

spectrometer with Eksigent 425 Nano Liquid Chromatography system. The proteomics group

focuses mainly on two aspects, first, developing plasma/serum proteomics and biomarker

discovery platform. Second we provide proteomics solutions to other in-house clinical research

teams. Your primary responsibility will be to analyse high throughput proteomics data generated

and as well as developing new robust pipelines for analysis and data visualization. This involves

working closely with the hospital’s multidisciplinary in-house clinical team and researchers as

well as collaborators. Your duty also includes to ensure secure data storage and manage data

transfer between the stakeholders.

**Minimum required qualifications/experience**

(a) MSc/M.Tech with few years of experience or PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational
Biology/Computer science

(b) Must have knowledge of coding in Python/R and shell scripting to atleast intermediate level.
(c) Prior experience in handling Proteome data, RNA-seq analysis, Genome analysis is preferred
(d) Knowledge of molecular biology and protein biology.
(e) Prior experience in multi-omics data analysis is an advantage.

**Desired experience**

(a) Knowledge of Programming languages like Java, Python, R along with Shell scripting.

(b) High throughput computing.

(c) Independent project management.

(e) Team player

proteomics, bioinformatics, and computational biology. An excellent command of English is

**Appointment and reporting**

Appointment to the position will initially be for 3 (three) years. The first year is probationary.

performance through periodic appraisals of performance. The successful applicant will be managed

by the lead scientist in Proteomics and will report to the Proteomics Lead.

**Enquiries**

Dr. Asama Mukherjee, Admin Head and Lab Manager, Tata Translational Cancer Research

Centre, Tata Medical Centre, Arterial Road (East-West); Newtown, Rajarhat; Kolkata 700 160.

Resources; Tata Medical Center; 14 Major Arterial Road (East-West); Newtown, Rajarhat;
Kolkata 700 160

(c) For informal enquiries,

1) Dr. Trina Dutta, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Clinical Proteomics Unit, TTCRC-TMC.

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