Washington University has been awarded a Program Project Grant to study the genetics of leukemia (Tim Ley, Principal Investigator, Department of Medicine). I am directing the Biostatistics Core for this project and will be hiring a PhD level statistician with a background in clustering and classification analysis to both analyze data from this project and develop and test new statistical methods. The novelty of this project involves having gene expression (gene chips), sequence data, and clinical covariates to unravel the genetic causes of leukemia and response to treatments. This will entail significant statistical methodological development to merge and analyze these disparate data sources. The Biostatistics Core proposal (minus figures) is online for review (http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon/LeukemiaCoreCRevisedMay26.rtf). Two other grants that I am PI of are also likely to be funded soon. These grants are for statistical development of clustering and classification methods with a focus on application to pharmacogenetic data (NIH grant) and the other grant (industry sponsored) focused on plant genomic data analysis. This grant can be viewed at http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon/FinalFormatted.pdf. I expect to begin searching for one or two (maybe three) PhD level statisticians to work on these projects and am sending this to CLASSL before placing formal ad's in the stat journals. (this is where I can find people who know what clistering is) I would like to hear from anyone looking for a research assistant/post-doc/instructor level position who is interested in applying clustering and classification methods to medical problems, developing new methods, and writing (lots) of papers. A background in biomedicine/genetics would be great. Bill --- William D. Shannon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics Washington University School of Medicine Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: 314-454-8356 Fax: 314-454-5113 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web page: http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon