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Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated student to join our group for a 10-week long summer internship program.  A successful candidate will work with the team to develop a statistical learning method to infer regulon and protein activity that capture the effect of somatic alterations in regulatory proteins.

Identifying causal drivers of cancer progression is essential for developing effective anti-cancer therapies. Our team has a strong background in inferring protein regulatory activity, which we will leverage in this project. We integrate multi-modal real-world patient data (RWD) to identify key drivers that drive and maintain patient states via regulating key oncogenic processes and transcriptional programs. These drivers represent best opportunity for therapeutic intervention due to their disease relevant regulatory roles. However, many existing approaches to identify these drivers rely solely on expression relationships between gene pairs, ignoring somatic alterations that are common in cancers and often independently affect regulator activity that is not captured in gene expression data.

In this summer intern project, we propose to build on existing internal methods aimed at capturing transcriptional regulatory relationships. We will focus on enhancing and strengthening the signal across different biological contexts. Specifically, we will develop a statistical learning method to infer regulon and protein activity that capture the effect of somatic alterations in regulatory proteins. This new method may uncover novel therapeutic targets with clear patient selection, which are missed by existing methods.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Develop a novel statistical model that integrates transcriptomic and somatic alteration data to infer regulons for driver genes. The inferred protein activity will capture the effect of somatic alterations in those regulatory proteins.
• Benchmark the performance this method in colorectal cancer (CRC) by evaluating key biological pathways using gene signatures and CPTAC phosphoprotein data.
• Cross-validate driver-regulon inference results between different patient cohorts

Qualifications & Experience

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in bioinformatics, biostatistics, computer science or a similar quantitative field
• A strong foundation in statistical model and machine learning methods
• Proficient in R (for data analysis and visualization)
• Experienced in transcriptomic data analyses
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $35.00/hour - $43.00/hour. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and the geographic location where work is performed. Final individual compensation is decided commensurate with demonstrated experience and education level.

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