Research Coordinator

JOB SUMMARY:

The candidate in this position will coordinate multiple aspects of the Pancreatlas(tm) imaging resource, a public platform created at Vanderbilt to bring together imaging data from human pancreas samples to accelerate diabetes-related research. The candidate will oversee project operations, including maintaining documentation and organizational structures, leading regular meetings and establishing milestones, developing data visualization and metadata fields for new data types, identifying potential connections and collaborators, and creating written communications for conferences, meetings, or general publicity within the research community. The candidate will also provide biological expertise for data curation and publication.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop creative outreach approaches to reach scientists, publishers, and funders
• Identify and liaise with resources/groups for collaboration
• Understand and critically evaluate scientific publications for collection of metadata
• Communicate with prospective contributors and users about data submission
• Oversee pipeline for data upload, from communicating with prospective contributors and reviewing data to standardizing and adapting metadata structures and identifying appropriate visualization tools for connecting imaging and omic resources
• Working remotely is an option

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred)
• Familiarity working with biomedical datasets
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills
• Experience managing scientific projects with attention to detail
• Background in life sciences, acquisition and analysis of imaging, single cell transcriptomic and/or epigenomic data preferred

Department Summary:

The Division has over 20 faculty and over 50 staff members, who participate in a wide-range of clinical programs and clinical and basic science research. Training the next generation of physicians and scientists is a major part of our mission and involves an Endocrinology Training Program and a Medical Student Research Program.

The Division provides in-patient and out-patient care at two hospitals, Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. We strive for excellence in patient care, and this has been recognized by our ranking as one of the best programs in Diabetes and Endocrinology by the US News and World Report.

Investigators in the Division conduct biomedical research ranging from laboratory-based to clinical investigation to outcomes and quality research. Research in the Division is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, the Research Service of the Veterans Association as well as private foundations and pharmaceutical companies.

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