About the opportunity
The Centre for Organ Assessment, Repair & Optimisation (COARO) is seeking a Bioinformatician to contribute to a rapidly expanding program of world-leading translational biomedical research focused on organ assessment, repair, regeneration, and optimisation.
COARO has developed a unique long-term ex vivo organ preservation platform capable of maintaining human organs under near-physiological conditions for extended periods, creating an unprecedented opportunity to study metabolic adaptation, sustained repair, and functional recovery over clinically meaningful timescales. The program is entering a significant growth phase, including progression toward first-in-human clinical translation.
Within this ambitious and multidisciplinary research environment, the Bioinformatician will play a critical intellectual role in shaping experimental design, analytical strategy, and scientific interpretation across multiple concurrent projects. This is not a purely technical data-processing position; rather, it is designed for a statistician who values close scientific collaboration, engages deeply with biological and clinical questions, and contributes meaningfully to high-impact peer-reviewed publications.
The successful candidate will work alongside laboratory scientists, engineers, clinicians, and PhD students to ensure that statistical reasoning is embedded from project conception through to publication. Statistical input will be expected to influence study design, mechanistic interpretation, including multi-omic data, and the broader understanding of sustained organ repair and regeneration within complex ex vivo systems.
COARO is seeking a motivated and detail‑oriented Bioinformatician to support the delivery of high‑quality clinical diagnostics through the development, validation and maintenance of advanced bioinformatics workflows. This role is central to enhancing laboratory efficiency, data integrity and analytical accuracy by implementing automated pipelines, optimising computational processes and supporting data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
This is a part-time position with flexible hours. Remote work is available for the right candidate.
Key responsibilities:
design and execute computational analysis plans for translational research projects focused on ex vivo organ perfusion, organ repair, regeneration and optimisation
m anage, clean, process, and organise large-scale biological datasets which may include genomic, transcript omic, single-cell, proteomic, metabolomic, imaging or clinical research data.
d evelop, maintain, and execute existing bioinformatics pipelines and computational methods in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment.
c ontribute to scientific reporting by preparing initial data visualisations, reports, and summaries of findings for presentation and discussion.
m aintain accurate and detailed documentation of analysis methods, code, and results to ensure reproducibility.
c ontribute to improvements in techniques, quantitative methods and quality control.
c ontribute to team-based and institute-wide research projects.
p resent original research at national or international scientific conferences.
About you
a bachelor's degree or higher in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, data science, genomics, biomedical science, computer science or a related field
experience analysing biological, clinical or high-throughput research data sets
familiarity with bioinformatics workflows, statistical analysis and reproducible coding practices
c omplete research projects in an efficient and timely manner, with outcomes published in peer-reviewed journals.
well-developed planning and organisation skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks, manage deadlines and balance competing workloads
sound research skills, including the ability to gather, analyse and interpret information accurately to support informed decision-making.
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Pre-employment checks and declarations
Your employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks required for the role in terms satisfactory to the University. Also, to meet the University’s obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence you will be asked to declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.
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Thursday 04 June 2026 11:59 PM
