Immunogeneticist

Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) is a genomics and cell therapy company focused on extending the healthy, high performance human lifespan.

Human Longevity, Inc. is looking for a Immunologist/Immunogeneticist to manage the medical reporting development effort with focus on actionable variants, report semantics, interaction with clients & validation.

The Immunologist/Immunogeneticist will work on projects requiring in-depth knowledge of human immunology and genetics. She/he will be expected to establish state-of-the-art and actionable immunology variant and clinical result interpretation and interact with clinical and industrial partners.

• Ensures up-to-date knowledge on genetics of human immunology, inflammation and allergy.

• Contributes to analysis of complex regions such as the MHC locus, KIR locus and other hypervariable loci involved in innate immunity

• Participates in the interest group of bioinformaticians and machine learning specialists to ensure state of the art annotation of the human genome.

• Contributes research on very large numbers of human genomes.

Minimum Qualifications (Must have)

• MD, or PhD

• Expertise in human immunology and immunogenetics.

• Expertise in HLA analyses

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, with great attention to detail and record keeping in both lab notebook and electronic documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bioinformatic skills a plus.

• Data management expertise

• Background in genome-wide association studies.

• Background in human genetics

• Experience with diagnostic immunology, assay development, HLA, KIR analyses.

• Experience with Allergy, transplantation or immune disorders.

• Self-Starter

• Experience in a start-up environment

• Able to work with data programmers, IT specialists, and research analysts