Current Openings

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is seeking outstanding, internationally recognized and visionary scientists to lead independent research programs to conduct cutting-edge cancer research in the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG).

DCEG investigators are always looking for fellows. Learn about how to apply for fellowships in DCEG.

The Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch seeks a bioinformatics scientist to support principal investigators by accessing and analyzing large genetic and genomic databases from current and past studies. This includes but is not limited to data manipulation, algorithmic implementation, statistical programming, genetic/genomic analyses and presenting results to scientific community within and beyond DCEG.

The Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch (ITEB) of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics (DCEG) is seeking bioinformatics scientists for doctorate-level contractor and postdoctoral fellowship positions. Successful candidates have the possibility to work on several exciting lung cancer and melanoma studies.

The Biostatistics Branch of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics is seeking postdoctoral fellow(s) interested in developing statistical methods for analyzing novel types of data from studies of cancer. Such data include high-dimensional genetics and biomarker observations, data from electronic medical records, environmental and spatial data, and longitudinal and survival data.

Dr. Diptavo Dutta, an investigator in the Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch (ITEB) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with interest in developing statistical methods for analyzing high-dimensional, multi-omics data, in conjunction with large-scale genome-wide association studies of cancer.

The Clinical Genetics Branch of DCEG seeks a motivated postdoctoral fellow who is interested in investigating the etiology of aggressive skin cancer types (melanoma, sebaceous carcinoma, and others) through epidemiologic and molecular approaches. 

Learn how to use genome-wide association studies (GWAS), next-generation sequencing analysis, and genome-wide methylation analysis to study risk and progression of lung cancer, melanoma, and kidney cancer.

Dr. Mark Purdue is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow with an interest in conducting research integrating classical and molecular epidemiologic methods to investigate the carcinogenicity of occupational and environmental exposures.

Study environmental risk factors for cancer and in developing and applying novel methods to assess exposures.

Work on environmental molecular epidemiological studies of indoor and outdoor air pollution and lung cancer; environmental and occupational molecular epidemiology studies of chemicals and particulates; and nested case-control studies of molecular biomarkers and lung cancer within prospective cohorts.

Seeking a postdoctoral fellow with an interest in conducting integrative studies on the etiology of bladder cancer.

The Radiation Epidemiology Branch of DCEG seeks qualified candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship to conduct interdisciplinary research on statistical issues in studying the role of radiation in cancer etiology, under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Little.

The NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join the research group of Kevin Brown, Ph.D., senior investigator in the Laboratory of Translational Genomics. The group studies the genetics underlying melanoma susceptibility and melanoma risk-associated phenotypes, focusing on translation of findings from genetic epidemiological studies including genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and family sequencing studies.

The NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics is recruiting a highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join the Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson research laboratory. The lab, located in the brand-new Consolidated Research Laboratories building at the NCI-Shady Grove campus in Rockville, Maryland, conducts genetic, genomic and functional studies on bladder cancer and genetics of immunity. The goal is to identify and explore molecular mechanisms of germline variants identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for bladder cancer risk. To better understand disease mechanisms and translate the GWAS findings to the clinic, the analysis of germline variants is integrated with somatic genetics, transcriptomics, environmental exposures, and clinical outcomes.

Hormuzd Katki, Ph.D., a senior investigator in the Biostatistics Branch, is seeking an applicant with training in epidemiology or biostatistics for various epidemiologic or methodologic projects as part of an interdisciplinary team.

The Metabolic Epidemiology Branch of the NCI Division of the Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) is recruiting a highly motivated and talented scientist to study cancer risk and survival under the mentorship of Dr. Demetrius Albanes. Studies will have an emphasis on the role of nutritional factors, vitamin supplementation, and the metabolomic signatures of cancer risk, mortality and etiologic factors.

The Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) of the NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG) is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow interested in studies of diet, the human microbiome, and metabolomics in relation to gastrointestinal and other cancers, under the mentorship of Dr. Rashmi Sinha.

Fellowship offers an opportunity to explore the genetic risk of lung cancer by characterizing genomic loci associated with the disease in the general population. The focus of this position will be leading/co-leading international collaborative projects and designing and performing experiments while working closely with multidisciplinary experts such as bioinformaticians, clinicians, and statisticians.

Dr. Tongwu Zhang seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in bioinformatics or computation biology with an interest in unraveling the complexities of cancer genomics in multiple cancer types. The research focuses on studying tumor heterogeneity, tumor evolution, and cutting-edge aspects of cancer genomics.

The Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch of NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics seeks an applicant with interest and experience in epidemiology to conduct research on cancer among transgender and gender-expansive communities under the mentorship of Sarah S. Jackson, Ph.D., Earl Stadtman Investigator.