Postdoctoral Researcher

UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 TeamUHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, The Michener Institute of Education and West Park Healthcare Centre. As Canada's top research hospital, the scope of biomedical research and complexity of cases at UHN have made it a national and international source for discovery, education and patient care. UHN has the largest hospital-based research program in Canada, with major research in neurosciences, cardiology, transplantation, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine and rehabilitation medicine. UHN is a research hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

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Position Summary:
We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with strong expertise in computational biology, statistical modeling, and analysis of high-dimensional biological and clinical data to contribute to an interdisciplinary research program focused on reproducible computational pipelines for translational cancer research. The lab has a strong focus on developing computational and machine learning approaches for biomarker discovery, therapeutic response modeling, and clinical translation in oncology.

The research program includes several ongoing and evolving projects in glioma and related cancers, broadly focused on tumor microenvironment characterization, liquid biopsy analysis, clinical trial correlative and multi-omics data integration. Current work involves analysis and integration of single-cell sequencing and immune repertoire data, circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) for biomarker development and disease classification, metabolomic profiling in relation to clinical variables, and large-scale genomic datasets, including whole-genome sequencing from multi-institutional collaborations. These projects are representative and not exhaustive, and the scope of work may expand to include additional data types and research directions.

Together, these efforts aim to advance translational cancer research through the development and application of computational pipelines and machine learning approaches to characterize disease biology, therapeutic response, and clinical outcomes from high-throughput genomic and clinical data. The successful candidate will work in the Kevin Wang Lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and will have the opportunity to contribute to multiple projects and help shape new research directions within the lab.

Duties:

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.

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