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Postdoctoral Scholar\u00a0\u2013 Research Associate<\/span><\/b>
\nDepartment: Convergent\u00a0Science\u00a0Institute\u00a0in\u00a0Cancer<\/a>, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences<\/span>
\nLocation: Los Angeles, California<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The University of Southern California (USC), founded in 1880, is located in the heart of downtown L.A. and is the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles.\u00a0As an employee of\u202fUSC, you will be a part of a world-class research university and a member of the \u201cTrojan Family,\u201d which is\u00a0comprised\u00a0of the faculty, students and staff that make the university\u00a0a great place\u00a0to work.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About CSI-Cancer<\/span><\/b>
\nThe USC Michelson Center Convergent Science Institute in Cancer (CSI-Cancer)\u00a0brings together engineers, data scientists,\u00a0biologists\u00a0and clinicians to tackle fundamental and translational problems in cancer\u2014from mechanistic modeling and physical dynamics of metastasis to high-content single cell data and advanced machine learning. Our vision is to integrate\u00a0patient, model\u00a0system\u00a0and high<\/span>\u2010<\/span>dimensional data to achieve\u00a0a\u00a0mechanistic understanding of cancer dynamics across scales.\u00a0We are\u00a0<\/span>studying circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and other analytes in\u00a0liquid\u00a0biopsies (blood, bone marrow aspirates, and other liquids) of cancer patients as an approach to\u00a0complement\u00a0cancer care. Our data science driven single-cell multi-omic\u00a0approach allows us to look at the morphology, proteome, and genome of these CTCs individually.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Position Overview<\/span><\/b>
\nWe are\u00a0seeking\u00a0a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar with a strong background in biomedical engineering (BME), computer science (CS), or biophysics, who is comfortable working at the interface of software and hardware with primary emphasis on software and a secondary emphasis on hardware. The successful candidate will join a convergent research team focused on early detection, liquid biopsy, rare-cell detection assays, and the development of novel computational and instrumentation platforms for cancer research.\u00a0They\u00a0<\/span>will develop and maintain data analysis methods and process pipelines to support the research, data, and analytic infrastructures of the institute (<\/span>https:\/\/kuhn.usc.edu\/liquid-biopsy\/<\/span><\/a>).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Responsibilities<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n