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NLM Invests $8 Million to Develop Diverse Biomedical Informatics, Data Science Training Programs

NLM is issuing grants to 12 institutions to support short-term biomedical informatics and data science training programs. NLM will issue these awards on an annual basis ($1.6 million each year) for five years, totaling an investment of $8 million to develop programs that prepare students for biomedical informatics and data science graduate studies and research careers.

STAFF SCIENTIST 1 (ClinicalTrials.gov Lead Policy Research Analyst)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist I in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) to support the scientific policy management of ClinicalTrials.gov, the largest publicly available clinical study registry and results database in the world. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

STAFF SCIENTIST 1 (ClinicalTrials.gov Results Team Lead)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist I in the Information Engineering Branch (IEB) to lead an interdisciplinary team of results quality control reviewers and to ensure that the results review teams’ decisions and activities are in alignment with regulation and policy and in support of the mission and priorities of ClinicalTrials.gov, the largest publicly available clinical study registry and results database in the world. NLM is one of 27 Institutes and Centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

STAFF SCIENTIST 1, Microbial Bioinformatics

The Intramural Research Program (IRP) of National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 to join the Computational Biology Branch of the NLM (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/jianglab). NLM is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The Intramural Research Program (IRP) is looking for an outstanding candidate to work on applying computational tools to challenging problems in large-scale microbial genomic analysis.

STAFF SCIENTIST 1

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position supports interdisciplinary research in the Computational Biology Branch (CBB). NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Wei Ma Selected to Serve as Acting Director, Office of Computer and Communication Systems, National Library of Medicine

Wei Ma has been selected to serve as Acting Director, Office of Computer and Communication Systems (OCCS) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is expected to assume the role in January 2023 as Ivor D’Souza assumes the role of Acting Director for the NIH Center for Information Technology.

NIH Preprint Pilot Accelerates and Expands Discovery of Research Results

The NIH Preprint Pilot has accelerated and expanded broad discovery of NIH-funded research results relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. This finding comes from a new preprint authored by staff at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and made available in bioRxiv. A project of NLM, the NIH Preprint Pilot was launched to explore new approaches to increase the discoverability of NIH-supported research results and gain a better understanding of perceptions and practices regarding preprints.

Director, Information Resources Branch (IRB)

The NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is looking for a seasoned professional to serve as the Director of its Information Resources Branch (IRB), leading teams to provide cloud computing, high performance computing, and scientific research applications for NLM, and the NIH-funded research community.

STAFF SCIENTIST 1 (SeqPlus Product Owner)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Information Engineering Branch (IEB) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 position. The position is in the IEB Sequence Enhancements, Tools, and Delivery Sequence Plus (SeqPlus) program, which includes eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral Reference Sequence (RefSeq) databases, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), Conserved Domains Database (CDD), NCBI Pathogen Detection Pipeline, NCBI Datasets, and sequence visualization and analysis tools. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

STAFF SCIENTIST 1 - (Medical Genetics and Human Variation Program Deputy Director)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Information Engineering Branch (IEB) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1 to support the Medical Genetics and Human Variation (MGV) Program, which includes dbGaP, ClinVar, GTR, and dbSNP. NLM is one of 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

Computational Modeling Sheds Light on Human Cognition and the Origins of Brain Disorders

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used computational modeling to uncover mutations in the human genome that likely influenced the evolution of human cognition. This groundbreaking research in human genomics could lead to a better understanding of human health and the discovery of novel treatments for complex brain disorders. The study was published in Science Advances.

NCBI Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer

The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is recruiting for a Staff Scientist 1. The position serves as the Deputy Director, NCBI, and as such, serves as the senior expert and consultant to NLM top management. NLM is one of the 27 Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

NLM’s LitVar 2.0 Provides More Accurate & Comprehensive Way to Search for Genetic Variants in Biomedical Literature

A team of researchers from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Broad Institute developed an improved web-based system, LitVar 2.0, to help researchers and clinicians search for genetic variants and related information in the biomedical literature. A paper about this powerful LitVar 2.0 system was published in Nature Genetics.

Technical Information Specialist, National Library of Medicine

These positions (involving conservation of born-digital and physical collections, advancing automated indexing efforts by applying scientific vocabulary and/or metadata content, and management, preservation, and access to NLM collections) are located in the Division of Library Operations (LO), in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Through teamwork NLM collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to health and disease. Application period: 06/08/2023 to 06/12/2023

Senior Advisor, Health Data Standards and Terminologies (HDST)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is recruiting for a Senior Advisor for Health Data Standards & Terminologies (HDST) to lead the Office of Health Data Standards and Terminologies (HDST) which is in the Division of Library Operations, one of the core components of the NLM. Application Period: 06/09/2023 to 07/30/2023.