Research Scientist - Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics

About the role

The Research Scientist will serve as an expert and scientific resource in cancer genomics, computational biology, and translational oncology within the OSUCCC research environment.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, design, implement, evaluate, and direct independent and collaborative cancer research projects, including studies focused on tumor biology, molecular subtyping, cancer susceptibility, genomic instability, transcriptomic profiling, and integrative multi-omics analysis.
• Develop hypotheses and experimental or analytical strategies for hypothesis testing; establish, adopt, and optimize laboratory and computational methods.
• Manage and oversee research methodologies used for data generation, analysis, interpretation, and reporting; provide scientific guidance on experimental design, molecular biology approaches, cancer genomics workflows, bioinformatics pipelines, and emerging technologies.
• Participate as a key member of multidisciplinary research teams, collaborate with investigators to determine research priorities and plan research programs, interpret complex biological and genomic data, troubleshoot scientific and technical problems, and contribute to the development of new research directions.
• Keep current with relevant published literature, identify new methodological and conceptual advances in cancer research, and make recommendations regarding research strategies and analytical procedures.
• Develop and write research manuscripts, abstracts, project reports, and grant proposals; present ongoing work and findings at institutional, national, and international conferences; contribute to educational workshops, lectures, and seminars.
• Develop, write, and submit extramural grant proposals as principal investigator, co-investigator, or key personnel, as appropriate under institutional policy, to obtain salary and research support from external funding agencies.
• Administer grants, assist with budget management, and contribute to progress reports and regulatory or compliance documentation.
• Supervise, mentor, and train junior investigators, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, research staff, and technicians within the laboratory or collaborative research team. Includes advising on research design, molecular and computational methods, data analysis, interpretation of results, manuscript preparation, presentation development, and career development.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree required in cancer biology, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, biomedical sciences, or a related field.
• Four+ years of genomics and/or molecular research required.
• Translational experience from bench work to patient-related experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate the ability to function as a competent, productive, and independent researcher.
• Evidence may include peer-reviewed publications of significant interest and value to the field; favorable peer review; citation by other investigators; presentations at professional societies or national/international conferences; development of new analytical methods, experimental approaches, datasets, or research resources; contribution to grant-funded research programs; and demonstrated ability to solve important biological, translational, or applied research problems.
• Experience in cancer genomics, transcriptomics, molecular biology, murine or preclinical cancer models, human cancer datasets, next-generation sequencing analysis, multi-omics integration, or computational biology is preferred.
• Experience with manuscript preparation, grant writing, collaborative project leadership, and mentoring of trainees or research staff is also preferred.