The Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), is recruiting for a tenure-track/tenured statistician. The REB, which includes epidemiologists, statisticians, and dose-reconstruction experts, focuses on clarifying the roles of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation as cancer risk factors, with implications for public health and mechanisms of cancer etiology. Because radiation dose to organs and tissues can often be measured and estimated with great precision, the epidemiology of radiation carcinogenesis is highly quantified, with great scope for statisticians to make both subject-oriented and methodological contributions.
The REB program includes research in the areas of late health effects of radiation diagnostic exams and treatment, nuclear fall-out, radiation accidents (Chernobyl, atomic bomb survivors), occupational exposures, evaluation of new radiation technologies in medicine, electromagnetic fields, and ultraviolet radiation. Challenges for the statistician include modeling the excess relative and absolute risk as a function of dose, evaluating the modifying effects of dose-rate and type of radiation, addressing effects on risk estimates of uncertainties from complex dosimetry systems, developing appropriate analytic approaches for special study designs, identifying and describing gene-environment interaction, and developing strategies to identify true associations in genome-wide scans for disease-producing genetic variants. REB investigators are encouraged to collaborate with scientists in other parts of the DCEG, including members of the Biostatistics Branch and the Human Genetics Program.
Applications will be evaluated on demonstrated ability to develop a creative, independent program of statistical research applicable to cancer epidemiology and genetics, and to collaborate effectively on epidemiologic studies.
The successful candidate will receive research support from the intramural research program of NIH for computer programming and recruiting a post-doctoral fellow. Applicants must have a doctorate in biostatistics, statistics or a related field, knowledge of the basic approaches used in cancer epidemiology, knowledge of biostatistical theory and methods, and post-doctoral experience. A record of publications demonstrating an ability to conduct independent research on statistical methods is required. Publications documenting collaborative epidemiologic or clinical research are highly desirable. The successful candidate should have strong communication skills to discuss scientific issues and to write scientific papers. Interested individuals should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a brief summary of research experience, accomplishments and research interests and goals, copies of three publications or preprints, and three letters of reference to:
Ms. Judy Schwadron
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute
6120 Executive Blvd. EPS/8073
Bethesda, MD 20892
Candidates should submit applications by June 1, 2007; however, the search will continue until a qualified candidate is found. Additional information about staff and ongoing research in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics and in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch is available on our web site.
DHHS and NIH are Equal Opportunity Employers.
