Fully funded PhD studentship working with cancer electronic health data in all-island Ireland project with the University of Limerick Digital Cancer Research Center (LDCRC), and Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at Queen's University Belfast. Student will harmonise cancer data and build federated cancer eHealth research, develop next generation clinical- decision making applications that match patients’ cancer data to clinical trials and targeted therapy. Students will actively contribute to global open-source software projects in digital health, work with international consortium OHDSI, HL7-FHIR, R /Bioconductor. Tax-free stipend €18,500 /yr, fees paid, generous expenses,travel
MSc in statistics, epidemiologists, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering or a related quantitative discipline.
● Be passionate about data science, AI, ML and working in a multidisciplinary team with clinical collaborators to advance cancer research.
●. Have strong computational skills (e.g., Python, R, Java, C/C++, etc.)
●. Strong analytical or problem-solving skills.
●. Be self-motivated, output driven, and have good communication and presentation skills.
Desirable, but not required:
● Knowledge of NLP
● Working with relational databases, ETL, OHDSI, OMOP-CDM
● Experience with clinical informatics data, clinical ontologies, cancer
email: eHealth@ul.ie