BIOINFORMATICIAN, KAVI – INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
AD/12/355/19 (1 POST)
The program
This is a position in the Indo-African Dengue project on pathogen sequencing, whose station is at the
KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, College of Health Sciences.
The position
The position is based in Nairobi and is tenable on one year contract, renewable on mutual agreement.
Qualifications:
Applicants must have a Bachelors degree in medical or biological sciences and a Masters or PhD degree in
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or a related field.
They should also have the skills to perform bioinformatics analysis. Those with skills in performing wet-lab assays and preparation of manuscripts will
have added advantage.
Key responsibilities:
Coordinating with clinicians and laboratory technologists for samples; collaboration in new research;
design and implement bioinformatics data analysis pipeline for viruses and bacteria pathogens; analysis of
next-generation genome sequencing data; and be a technical point of contact person for the project at
KAVI-ICR and NCBS, India.