The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the NIH Roadmap. The NCBO is administered at Stanford University, with partners at the Mayo Clinic, the University at Buffalo, the University of Victoria, and UCSF. The Center provides national technological infrastructure to support the creation, dissemination, and management of biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form.
The laboratory of Dr. Mark Musen, principal investigator of the NCBO, is seeking a highly motivated and independent post-doctoral trainee to conduct research projects at the interface of the life sciences and the Semantic Web. The post-doc will be involved in ongoing collaborative work that concerns archiving, querying, and reasoning about biological data over the Web.
The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Biomedical informatics or Computer Science and an excellent publication record. The position requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to build software tools in Java. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills and be fluent in both spoken and written English. A background in molecular biology or medicine is highly desirable. Prior experience working with RDF stores, ontologies, or natural- language processing methods is preferred. This exciting work will be guided by multidisciplinary collaborations with top scientists at Stanford and with collaborating projects of the NCBO as well as with Health Care and Life Sciences interest group of the W3C.
Please send a statement of interest and a current CV to: Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and, by courtesy, of Computer Science Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Stanford University 251 Campus Drive, X-215 Stanford, CA 94305-5479 USA Phone: +1 (650) 725-3390 Fax: +1 (650) 725-7944 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
