Postdoc ‘Assuring Safety Without Animal Testing (ASAT)’
Universiteit Maastricht
Location: Maastricht (The Netherlands)
Available from: 2010-12-28
Organisation type: education, research
Language requirements: EN (good)
Job type: full-time
Category: Biology
Clinical
Chemistry
Education: PhD, M.D.
You will be appointed as a post-doc on the ASAT (Asuring Safety Without Animal Testing) project entitled “Data Integration & Mining Towards Risk Assessment”. The aim of this data mining project is to create a data mining and warehousing infrastructure which will be exploited for the purpose of defining to which extent currently available human data, together with in vitro data can be used to serve ultimately risk assessment.
In collaboration with another scientist, data on human diseases and toxicology will be gathered and the data base and tools developed to address and analyze these data.
This last part will be your main contribution.
You will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Jos Kleinjans and Dr. Danyel Jennen.
Job requirements
We are looking for a creative scientist with a PhD in computer science/bioinformatics or (computational) biology. Experience or great affinity with analysis of data-base stored information and toxicology is important, as well as good communication skills to operate in a team of scientists.
Labour conditions
The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ , A-Z Terms of Employment.
Contract
Temporary
until 31-12-2011
Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 14,000 students and 3,500 employees. Reflecting the university’s strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Department
NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism
NUTRIM initiates and catalyzes translational research into nutritional health benefits and risks focusing on metabolic and chronic inflammatory diseases. Through its research master and PhD program NUTRIM aims to educate scientists of high academic excellence and ambassadors to support and develop the filed of nutrition, metabolism and toxicology within and outside the Netherlands. 16 Biomedical, clinical, and behavioural-science departments are incorporated within NUTRIM. The school participates in the Graduate School VLAG (Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology, Nutrition and Health Sciences), accredited by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is a partner in TI Food and Nutrition and participates in TI-Pharma and the Centre for Translational Molecular Medicine. These unique consortia of government, industry and research aim to stimulate the transfer of knowledge generated in fundamental research to Dutch industry and thus to strengthen its innovative power and competitive strength.
Additional information
Dr. D. Jennen, T: +31-43-3881094, Email: danyel.jennen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Department of Health Risk Analysis & Toxicology, www.grat.unimaas.nl