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Univ – Senior Research Associate
Department of Surgery: Surgical Oncology
Posted on 6/22/2025
Medical University of South Carolina
No salary listed
Charleston, SC, USA
In Person
Category
 Lab & Research (2) |
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Required Skills
Data Analysis
Requirements
- Additional New Requirements: Ability to obtain and maintain a valid driver\'s license.
- Computer literacy.
- Ability to work rotating shifts as required.
- Ability to work overtime as required.
- Ability to learn and use new processes, tools and equipment as required.
- Ability to perform job functions in an upright position.
- Ability to perform job functions in a seated position.
- Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile.
- Ability to climb stairs.
- Ability to work indoors.
- Ability to work in all cold temperature extremes, i.e. spot coolers.
- Ability to bend at the waist.
- Ability to twist at the waist.
- Ability to perform 'pinching' operations.
- Ability to fully use both hands/arms.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders.
- Ability to fully use both legs.
- Ability to reach in all directions.
- Possess good finger dexterity.
- Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions.
- Ability to maintain good olfactory sensory function.
- Ability to lift and carry 30 lbs., unassisted.
- Ability to lift objects, up to 30 lbs., from floor level to height of 72 inches, unassisted.
- Ability to lower objects, up to 30 lbs., from height of 72 inches to floor level, unassisted.
- Ability to push/pull objects, up to 50 lbs., unassisted.
- Ability to lift and carry objects up to 30 lbs. a distance of five (5) floors and to outlying buildings.
- Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected.
- Ability to see and recognize objects close at hand.
- Ability to see and recognize objects at a distance.
- Ability to match or discriminate between colors.
- Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception.
- Good peripheral vision capabilities.
- Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction.
- Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements.
- Ability to be qualified physically (by medical personnel) for respirator use, initially and annually.
- Ability to work alone in isolated areas, such as darkrooms.
- Note: The description also mentions rotating shifts and overtime.
Responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining a knowledge base to be used by a specialized clinical decision support tool of family history and risk factors for cancer (http://ask2me.org/) and its replacement software.
- Using a natural language processing tool to extract information from medical literature, analyze relevant studies, select the studies with the best quality, extract cancer risk data from these studies, convert them into cancer risk curves that are easy for physicians and patients to understand and update the clinical decision support tool accordingly.
- Assisting the principal investigator in conceptualizing research projects, performing relevant analysis, summarizing research findings, preparing manuscript drafts, and publishing them in academic conferences and journals (25%).
- Implementing a variant harmonization tool to identify and harmonize the discordant variant classifications and verifying the disease spectrum of cancer susceptibility genes using an innovative assessment method.
- Collaborating with our research collaborators at MIT, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Northeastern University and Clemson
Desired Qualifications
- Masters degree in clinical research, epidemiology, biostatistics, informatics, or related field and three years of related experience.
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