Temporary Research Assistant (Perinatal Research)
Temporary Research Assistant (Perinatal Research)
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Job Description
The Temporary Research Assistant will work under the supervision of Dr. Ellen Francis in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at School of Public Health ( SPH ). The Assistant will assist Dr. Francis with research projects addressing metabolic conditions in pregnancy and implications for poor health outcomes across both the pregnant individuals and their offsprings lifecourse. The Assistants primary responsibility will be to lead data management and analysis for ongoing research projects and prepare manuscripts and grant applications. The data for analysis are existing and were obtained from pregnancy cohorts with extensive phenotyping including metabolomics environmental exposures and long-term follow up of women and their children. If appropriate the Research Assistant will be encouraged to develop their own independent research program and apply for independent funding. Potential topic areas include sex-differences in metabolomic biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk placental function and later offspring health and metabolomic profiles of lifestyle factors. The Assistants day-to-day work will include database management statistical analysis manuscript writing and mentorship of students/trainees. There will be opportunities for authorship on publications presentation at local and national conferences and collaboration on grant proposal development.
Overview
New Jerseys academic health center Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students providing clinical care and conducting research all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick and collaborating university wide RBHS includes eight schools a behavioral health network and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research neuroscience clinical and translational research advanced biotechnology and medicine environmental and occupational health and health care policy and aging research. Our faculty are teachers clinicians and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine dentistry pharmacy public health nursing biomedical research and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state including New Brunswick Piscataway Newark Scotch Plains Somerset Blackwood and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick University Hospital in Newark and other affiliates. Through this community of healers scientists and scholars Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives
Preferred Qualifications
Doctoral degree in Epidemiology or related quantitative discipline including but not limited to Biostatistics Statistics Health Services Research or Health Outcomes/Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research.
Employment Type
Part-Time
