About the role
Senior/Principal Scientist, Nutrition & Digestive Health (SIFBI) role based on the published job description. Key responsibilities and requirements were extracted directly from the posting for quick review.
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Key Responsibilities
- A*STAR is seeking to appoint a Senior/Principal Scientist for the Singapore Institute for Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI)'s Nutrition & Digestive Health division.
- The candidate will be responsible for developing and executing high-quality interventional nutrition studies, aligned with the strategic direction of SIFBI which aims to be a regional innovation engine for food and nutrition.
- For this, the candidate is required to demonstrate that they are a leading nutrition research scientist with a proven track record of excellence in the conduct, completion and publications of results from human clinical studies.
- This must also include domain expertise in the area of human biology/physiology, particularly in relation to cardio-metabolic diseases.
- The successful candidate will also be required to demonstrate a deep understanding of how multiple organs and systems influence diet-disease relationships, including evidence of research expertise in Omics technologies.
- Applicants will be expected to demonstrate team leadership in multidisciplinary and collaborative research, including securing competitive research grants and/or commercial funding.
Requirements
- PhD in Biomedical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Nutrition Sciences, or related fields.
- Evidence of a quality and productive track record of high-impact scientific publications.
- Evidence of being a team player, with supervisory experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of post-doctoral experience, which may be inclusive of employment in research roles within industry.
- Experience in using statistical software (e.g. SPSS, R) and omics-based databases.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills