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The
Boston University Section of Preventive Medicine and
Epidemiology is seeking candidates for its T32 Training Grant
in Cardiovascular Epidemiology awarded by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute. Trainees will focus their 2-year
training on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease such as
coronary heart disease, stroke, heart failure and other forms
of vascular disease, following one of the training pathways:
statistical genetics and genomics, computational biology and
bioinformatics, or clinical epidemiology.
Training Grant Start Date: April 1, 2018
Qualifications required
1)
US Citizen or green
card holder
2)
a) Ph.D. degree in
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Computational Biology,
Bioinformatics, Genetics and Genomics or related field and
programming skills (SAS and/or R preferred) or
b) MD
degree
The successful candidate
will participate in training activities including
pathway-specific coursework and workshops, as well as
individual professional development plan workshops, one-on-one
professional counseling and career planning, grant writing
workshops, research seminars, journal internships, and working
on research projects with a Boston University senior
investigator on longitudinal epidemiological studies such as
Framingham Heart Study, Long Life Family Study and other
cohort studies. All trainees will be supervised by their
assigned faculty mentor as well as by the program’s
co-directors for progress evaluation.
Interested candidates
should send the following materials to Mike Galatis at
mgalatis@bu.edu
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Cover letter
indicating reason for applying to this training program
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Curriculum vitae
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2 recommendation
letters
Boston University is an
equal opportunity employer. Under-represented minorities are
strongly encouraged to apply. For more information, please
contact Mike Galatis, administrator, at
mgalatis@bu.edu.
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