Dear all,
We are inviting applications for a 3-year PhD Fellowship in Biostatistics to be based at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/), Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo (UiO). The application deadline is May 17.
Join a vibrant and supportive research community with leading national and international collaborations. OCBE is one of Europe’s most active biostatistics centres with about 75 researchers. The centre is internationally recognized, with interests spanning a broad range of research areas in biostatistics, machine learning and epidemiology and numerous collaborations with leading bio-medical research groups internationally and in Norway. OCBE is a partner in Integreat – the Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning and in TRUST – The Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI. The successful applicant will join the research group Statistical learning in molecular medicine and the high-dimensional statistics environment at OCBE, and be part of a multi-disciplinary research consortium called T-PRESS: Trustworthy Personalized Evidence to Support Sustainable Healthcare Decisions.
About the project:
The fellowship period is 3 years and devoted to carrying out a project entitled “Reliable Bayesian prediction models with uncertainty quantification for trustworthy personalized treatment decisions in the T-PRESS Evidence Ecosystem Framework”. The primary objective of the T-PRESS consortium is to make it easier for clinicians and patients to make personalized shared decisions regarding treatment options in cancer. The project will use emerging adjuvant immunotherapy treatment options for renal cell carcinoma as a use case.
The successful applicant will develop Bayesian statistical and machine learning methods for treatment response prediction using clinical information, molecular characterizations of the tumor and results of in vitro drug response experiments with so-called patient-derived organoids (PDOs), with the aim to provide personalized risk assessments and predictions for treatment effect, with explicit uncertainty estimates.
Find more information about the position and the link for applying here:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298895/phd-position-in-biostatistics-at-the-oslo-centre-for-biostatistics-and-epidemiology-ocbe
Thank you and best wishes,
Manuela Zucknick