Employer : The University of Sydney
Closing date: Thursday 04 June 2026 11:59 PM
Brief position description:
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
- manage, clean, process, and organise large-scale biological datasets which may include genomic, transcript omic, single-cell, proteomic, metabolomic, imaging or clinical research data.
- develop, maintain, and execute existing bioinformatics pipelines and computational methods in a high-performance computing (HPC) environment.
- contribute to scientific reporting by preparing initial data visualisations, reports, and summaries of findings for presentation and discussion.
- maintain accurate and detailed documentation of analysis methods, code, and results to ensure reproducibility.
- contribute to improvements in techniques, quantitative methods and quality control.
- contribute to team-based and institute-wide research projects.
- present 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
- complete 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.
Job website: http://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Bioinformatician_0150084-1
Contact name: Thanh-Thanh Thai
Contact email: thanhthanh.thai@sydney.edu.au