Department of Biostatistics Position Announcements

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) are seeking a distinguished statistical scientist to serve as chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at DFCI. The successful candidate will also be appointed as a tenured professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and will provide leadership in the cancer training and research program in the department.

The Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the DFCI is an active department of sixteen faculty, twelve doctoral research scientists, and fifteen masters-level statisticians conducting wide-ranging methodological research in biostatistics and computational biology and collaborative research in cancer. The department is home to the statistical centers for the International Breast Cancer Study Group, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and the National Cancer Care and Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium, and coordinates the Biostatistics Core Facility for the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. The department is closely affiliated with the Department of Biostatistics at HSPH, where most DFCI faculty hold joint appointments and participate in the graduate training program.

The successful candidate will be a visionary leader, internationally recognized as a pre-eminent statistical scientist with an established record of scholarship, ideally in the area of cancer research. Candidates should hold a doctoral degree in a relevant field.

Please send a letter of application, including a statement of current and future research interests, a curriculum vitae, and sample publications, to the following address. It would be helpful if you would also provide the names of senior scholars likely to be most knowledgeable about your field and about your work in particular.

Chair, Search Committee for Professor of Biostatistics
c/o Tina Goldsmith
Office of Faculty Affairs
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue, Room 1010
Boston MA 02115

Harvard University is committed to increasing the representation of women and minorities among its faculty and particularly encourages applications from such candidates.

The Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is seeking an outstanding candidate for a tenure-track faculty position in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor. The successful candidate would join an active group at HSPH developing novel computational and statistical methods, and conduct collaborative research with clinical and basic scientists at Harvard University and its affiliated medical centers. She/he is expected to play a vital leadership role in expanding the quantitative science research and educational programs at HSPH in bioinformatics and computational biology and its related fields. Candidates should have doctoral degree and a demonstrated record of achievement; candidates in all areas of computational biology, bioinformatics and statistical science are encouraged to apply. Please send a letter of application, including a statement of current and future research interests, a curriculum vitae, sample publications, and the names of three referees to the address below. Applicants should ask their three referees to write independently to this address:

Computational Biology Junior Faculty Search Committee
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
655 Huntington Avenue, 4th floor
Boston MA 02115

Harvard School of Public Health is strongly committed to increasing the representation of women and minority members among its faculty and particularly encourages applications from such candidates.

Guidelines for Postdoctoral Fellows in Our Department (PDF File)

Postdoctoral fellowships are available within the Department of Biostatistics. Fellows will engage in methodological research and participate in collaborative research in AIDS, public health surveillance, the environment, cancer, mental health, or statistical genetics. Particular interest in those with statistical expertise in survival analysis, longitudinal data, high dimensional data, image or signal analysis, Bayesian statistics, or spatial statistics. Some positions require U.S. citizenship or permanent residency. Start dates are flexible. Send CV and names of three references to biostat_postdoc@hsph.harvard.edu, or mail to:

Postdoctoral Committee
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
655 Huntington Avenue, 4th floor
Boston MA 02115

Applications from minority and female candidates are especially encouraged. Harvard University is an AA/EOE.