Dr. Pingzhao Hu at The Department of Biochemistry of the Western University (formally starting on September 1, 2022) has two funded PhD student positions in Bioinformatics/Statistical Genetics (www.hu-bioinformaticslab.org).
Position 1 is funded by a recently awarded CIHR team grant. This position will be funded for 4 years with annual research assistantship $21,000.
Position 2 is funded by a recently awarded CIHR Project grant. This position will be funded for 4 years with annual research assistantship $21,000.
Position 1 -The candidate will develop and apply computational and statistical methods to integrate multiple complex health data to build prediction models and identify biomarkers.
Position 2 - The candidate will develop deep learning models to identify antibiotic drug candidates.
The successful candidates should have strong background in broadly defined life science/medicine and be familiar with R or python programming, machine learning and statistical modeling or you can learn them quickly. He/She should have a MSc degree.
To apply for the positions, please send a CV, transcripts, related reports/publications written in English, and English test results to Dr. Pingzhao Hu at pingzhao.hu@utoronto.ca.
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