The Computer-Assisted Drug Design group of Prof. Gisbert Schneider is seeking a student for a PhD position in the area of Computer-Assisted Drug Design.

PhD position in Computer-Assisted Drug Design for Big Data analysis

The goal of the PhD project is to apply and develop ligand- and receptor-based molecular design methods and machine learning algorithms for small molecule design in drug discovery. A central aspect of the position will be scientific software programming and application.
The position is part of the Euopean Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN project BigCHEM (Horizon 2020 MSC ITN EID project), providing innovative education in large chemical data analysis. The program is jointly realized by academic and industrial institutions within EU and Switzerland. The advertised position is hosted by ETH Zurich and Boehringer-Ingelheim as the industrial partner. The successful candidate will spend at least 50% of time with the industrial partner.

Tasks include:

• Development and adaptation of cheminformatics software tools.
• Compound library profiling, chemical database management, and de novo ligand design.
• Strong interactions with other PhD candidates and the willingness to work as a member of a team.

Qualifications
• The successful candidate should have a strong background in chem/bioinformatics, programming and in chemistry and essentially live in both worlds.
• He/she should possess good knowledge of machine learning algorithms.
• We expect solid programming skills in languages like Java and/or C, scripting languages and cheminformatics programming toolkits.
• Candidates should be highly motivated, self-organized, creative, displaying initiative and used to thinking sideways.
• Excellent command of the English language is expected. • Candidates must be willing to travel and work for half of their time in the pharmaceutical industry.

For further information on this position please contact Prof. Dr. Gisbert Schneider by email, gisbert.schneider@pharma.ethz.ch (no applications)and visit our websit  www.modlab.ethz.ch. Deadline for applications is June 30, 2016.

 

Applications must contain a statement of interest, a CV, the names of two references and additional documents, in particular copies of degree certificates and the associated scores.We only accept online applications using the following link: http://bigchem.eu/node/48.