Research Associate
Core
Advancing biomedical natural language processing (NLP) to enhance variant-phenotype mapping, gene-disease models, and clinical decision support for rare genetic diseases.
Role type
Research Associate (Biomedical NLP)
Builds
Domain-specific text summarisation tools and novel NLP approaches for clinical use
Domain
Biomedical research / Genomic medicine / Natural Language Processing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Biomedical NLP, text mining, knowledge extraction, Python programming, large language model (LLM) fine-tuning
Preferred skills
Experience with clinical notes processing, explainable AI/ML
Technologies
Python, NLP toolkits, LLMs
Responsibilities
Develop novel NLP approaches to extract phenotypic information from unstructured data; Create domain-specific text summarisation tools; Integrate technologies into broader research goals; Disseminate work through collaborations; Ensure explainable AI/ML for clinical use; Support students through mentorship
