Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Biostatistics
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 77976 - 95014
Posted on:
09-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.
With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation HIV/AIDS prevention immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the worlds leading cancer infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology infusion radiation proton therapy and related services and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the worlds deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.
At Fred Hutch we value collaboration compassion determination excellence innovation integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity dignity and inherent value of each employee patient community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.
The Huang Group (Dr. Ying Huang) is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow in biostatistics to develop innovative statistical methods at the intersection of methodology and impactful biomedical applications.
Responsibilities
The fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to one or more of the following priority areas:
- Immune surrogate biomarker development with an emphasis on modeling longitudinal immune responses and linking them to clinical outcomes;
- Addressing challenges of complex non-compliance in cancer screening trials; and
- Efficient design and analysis strategies for multi-cancer detection (MCD) addition to advancing novel methods the fellow will have opportunities to analyze large-scale high-impact medical studies in cancer and infectious disease prevention.
Responsibilities also include:
- Attending lab meetings and regular meetings with PI
- writing/editing/drafting/contributing towards publications and presentations
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary research teams including statisticians epidemiologists laboratory scientists and clinicians to translate statistical findings into biological and clinical insights.
- Contribute to methodological research in areas such as surrogate biomarker evaluation causal inference and trial design leading to publication in peer-reviewed journals.
- Stay current with emerging statistical methods and relevant biomedical literature to inform ongoing research and foster innovation.
- Present research findings through publications conference presentations and internal seminars.
- Support grant proposals and progress reports by contributing statistical expertise and analysis results if needed.
- Contribute to methodological research in areas such as immune biomarker evaluation causal inference and clinical trial design.
- Demonstrate commitment to scientific integrity collaboration and continuous professional growth.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- PhD degree in Biostatistics Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or equivalent required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following areas: survival analysis longitudinal data analysis two-phase sampling techniques methods for handling missing data causal inference measurement error models and methods for biomarker evaluation
- Proficiency in R or Python
- Experience in C/C a plus
- Highest scientific rigor and integrity.
- Strong oral and written communication and critical thinking skills
- Ability to work independently and within multidisciplinary teams
The annual base salary range for this position is from $77976 to $95014 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.
This position is not eligible for H1-B sponsorship at this time.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health well-being and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision dental flexible spending accounts life disability retirement family life support employee assistance program onsite health clinic income-based child care subsidy tuition reimbursement paid vacation (22 days per year) paid sick leave (up to 30 calendar days per occurrence of a qualifying reason) paid holidays (13 days per year) and paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).
Additional Information
Key Skills
- Bioinformatics
- Genetics
- R
- Biochemistry
- Cell Biology
- Research Experience
- Statistical Software
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
- Flow Cytometry
- Microscopy
