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Join us at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI)! Below is the list of job opportunities currently available at the LDI. This list is updated regularly, so please check back often.

The LDI is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion within its community. The LDI has an equal opportunity employment program and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics, with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. Accommodation for any part of the application process may be provided to persons with disabilities who request it.

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Full-time Clinical Research Nurse

Full-time Study Coordinator

The Clinical Research Unit (CRU) of the LDI at the Jewish General Hospital, which is amongst the leading clinical research units in Canada for Phase I and II clinical trials in oncology and malignant hematology, is looking for a full-time Clinical Research Nurse. The Nurse will conduct oncology trials/ hematology trials in an ambulatory research clinic, perform study required procedures and administer investigational drugs and chemotherapy according to protocol standards. The ideal candidate is a RN/ BSc. N and current OIIQ member with a minimum of one-year experience in a medical setting.

Salary: Based on experience and qualifications (Non-unionized, funded by research grants)
Starting date: Immediately

Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV by email to Rita Bartolucci, Head Research Nurse, Clinical Research Unit SMBD Jewish General Hospital. 

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Full-time Research Assistant

Full-time Study Coordinator

The (Developmental Research in Early Adversity Mental health BIological susceptibility and Gender (DREAM BIG) consortium, led by Dr Ashley Wazana at the lady Davis institute – Jewish General Hospital,  is seeking a dynamic individual with a Developmental Neuroscience (genetics, neuroimaging) background who is well versed in large-scale statistical modelling. The position’s primary role is data analysis of the DREAM BIG database. The successful applicant will also be involved in manuscript and grant preparation. 

The ideal candidate holds a MA/MSc or higher in neuroscience developmental or clinical psychology, or a related degree in social and behavioral or health sciences; has knowledge of advanced statistical modelling using R, MATLAB, Phyton, SPSS, SAS; and has  experience with genetic and/or neuroimaging.

Salary: $50,000 – $80,000/annually in accordance with qualifications and experience (plus benefits)
Hours: 35 hours per week — Flexible working hours with both in-person (Centre for Child Development and Mental Health at the Lady Davis Institute – Jewish General Hospital) and remote working conditions with a significant level of autonomy.
Starting date: Immediate

Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae and a cover letter by November 22, 2024 to: david.laplante@ladydavis.ca.  

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Full-time Postdoctoral Fellow

Full-time Study Coordinator

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will play a key role in the design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of projects and their results aimed at improving precision oncology in the field of gynecological cancers. He/she will actively contribute to projects involving wet lab (preclinical studies/models, cell culture, animal studies) and dry lab (cancer genomics and pathology) studies. Through these contributions, the Postdoctoral Fellow will gain experience in conducting biomedical studies as well as participatory research with collaborators. Duties include working directly with the lab head(s) to design, develop and execute bench experiments; leading individual and collaborative projects; analyzing and synthesizing experimental results autonomously (tables, figures, etc.) to derive scientific conclusions; and mentoring trainees in the team.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD with a background in biomedical/epigenetic/immunology sciences, or a related field and has essential wet lab skills such as cell culture, DNA/RNA/protein isolation, Western blotting, immunostaining, etc. with extensive experience with in vitro assays.

Salary: Salary and benefits according to McGill University/LDI policies
Hours: 35 hours per week (Onsite)
Duration: 1 year (renewable)
Starting date: Immediate

Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae and a cover letter explaining your career goals and how you meet the requirements for this position to: amber.yasmeen@affiliate.mcgill.ca.  

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Full-time Administrative Coordinator

Full-time Study Coordinator

Under the responsibility of the Human Resources Supervisor of the Lady-Davis Institute, the candidate will have the task of on-boarding new personnel (employees and trainees) as well as changes, terminations and leave of absence requisitions. The candidate will be expected to aid researchers in gathering various documents in order to create an employee or trainee file onto the LDI-HR Database. The candidate will be responsible for gathering information required by funding agencies, universities, etc.  The candidate will also act as a liaison with Health Services and Payroll Department.

The ideal candidate holds a College (DEC) studies in administrative field (preferred) and has excellent secretarial skills, including a strong working knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Salary: Salary scale between $23.79 et $31.71 per hour
Hours: 35 hours per week
Starting date: Immediate

Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and cover letter by email to Julia Piccolo at julia.piccolo@ladydavis.ca.

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Full-time Clinical Research Coordinator/Research assistant

Full-time Study Coordinator

Under the direction of Dr. Vicky Tagalakis and thrombosis clinical researchers Drs. Hirsch, Kahn and Simard, at the Centre of Excellence in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation Care (CETAC) of the Jewish General Hospital, the Clinical Research Coordinator/Research Assistant will perform duties associated with the day-to-day management of thrombosis clinical trials and observational studies conducted at the JGH site. This will involve recruitment and follow-up of patients, record keeping, and communications with the central study site, adhering to principles of good clinical practice (GCP).

The ideal candidate holds at a minimum an undergraduate or higher degree in health-related field and must have work experience in clinical research that involves direct patient contact (do not apply if you lack this experience).

Salary: Commensurate with experience and the policies of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Starting date: Immediate

Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter, CV, and unofficial university grades transcript to Lori.Young@ladydavis.ca. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

 

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Full-time Research Assistant for the DEPRESSD and COVID-19 LSR Projects

Full-time Study Coordinator

The DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Project (https://www.depressd.ca), a collaborative endeavor set up by Drs. Brett Thombs and Andrea Benedetti, who partnered with local and international experts to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools by conducting individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs), is seeking a full-time Research Assistant to join the team. The tasks of the Analytical Research Coordinator will include reviewing scientific publications and screening articles for eligibly as part of the systematic review process; extracting published results based on pre-developed coding manuals; basic data analysis, including transforming raw participant data into a uniform format for use in the project, based on existing codebooks; verifying that data submitted to the project can be used to replicate the results from the original studies; and contributing to drafting manuscripts for publication.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor’s degree in health sciences or other relevant field. Research experience in the health sciences, including data management, evidence synthesis and manuscript writing is an asset.

Salary and duration: To be negotiated based on relevant experience and training
Starting date: October 2024 (flexible)

Interested candidates should submit (1) a cover letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) an unofficial transcript, and (4) a writing sample (optional) to Nadia González Domínguez (nadia.gonzalez@mail.mcgill.ca), the DEPRESSD Project Coordinator.

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Full-time Analytical Research Coordinator for the DEPRESSD and COVID-19 LSR Projects

Full-time Study Coordinator

The DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Project (https://www.depressd.ca), a collaborative endeavor set up by Drs. Brett Thombs and Andrea Benedetti, who partnered with local and international experts to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of depression screening tools by conducting individual participant data meta-analyses (IPDMAs), is seeking a full-time Analytical Research Coordinator to join the team. The tasks of the Analytical Research Coordinator will include reviewing scientific publications and screening articles for eligibility as part of the systematic review process; extracting published results based on pre-developed coding manuals; corresponding with primary study authors for queries, or with potential data contributors to obtain necessary documentation to include their data in the project (e.g., letter of agreement, original patient data); and basic data analysis, including transforming raw patient data into a uniform format for use in the project, based on existing codebooks and verifying that data submitted to the project can be used to replicate the results from the original studies.

The ideal candidate holds a Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, or a related field and has research experience in the health sciences, including data management.

Salary: Salary to be negotiated based on relevant experience and training
Duration: One-year position with possibility of extension based on mutual agreement and funding
Starting date: September 2024 (flexible)

Interested candidates should submit (1) a cover letter, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) an unofficial transcript, (4) a writing sample, and (5) contact information for up to three references to Nadia González Domínguez (nadia.gonzalez@mail.mcgill.ca), the DEPRESSD Project Coordinator.

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Full-time Junior Engineer - Artificial Intelligence

Full-time Study Coordinator

The laboratory of Dr. Alan Spatz in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and located at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital is currently seeking a talented engineer to join an exciting research project. This position will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to drive innovation and make a real-world impact in the healthcare system. The engineer will help shape our AI strategy to predict early-stage clinical treatment, survival of the patient, clinical cancer diagnostic, personalized medicine for cancer patients and help pathologists to provide results quicker by using patient’s digital tissue information. This position will use ML to develop new applications and algorithms to guide and achieve this goal with the help of digital tissue section images of different type of cancers and clinical information of the patient. Developed algorithms will be used in the clinic as a diagnostic tool showing the potential of AI to support the healthcare system.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD in Computer Science or any other applicable field (Data Science, Bioinformatics or related field) and has 1-2 years’ experience minimum experience as an AI Engineer or ML learning in a similar role.

Salary: Commensurate with experience
Hours: 35 hours per week (onsite)
Starting date: Immediately

Interested candidates are invited to submit a Curriculum vitae with bibliography, a cover letter (including a statement of research interests and prior experience in related research) and references (names and contact information for two referees) to Dr. Alan Spatz at alan.spatz@mcgill.ca.

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Full-time Research Assistant

Full-time Study Coordinator

Dr. April Rose’s laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) is seeking a research assistant to carry out a CIHR-funded research program aimed at interrogating the role of mutant NRAS in modulating immunotherapy response in melanoma.

The Research Assistant will be responsible for performing cell culture, including co-culture systems with immune cells and cancer cells, interrogating changes in gene and protein expression and cell function. Additionally, he/she will be responsible for preparing and maintaining animal use protocols and other administrative tasks as well performing in vivo experiments in mouse model systems. The ideal candidate holds a minimum of a master’s in Experimental Medicine or related field and has experience working with cancer cells and immune cells in cell culture as well as with standard molecular biology techniques (immunoblotting, transfection, qRT-PCR, RNAseq, microscopy).

Salary and benefits: According to the LDI HR policy ($40,000 – $50,000 salary scale)
Starting date: Immediately

Interested candidates are invited to submit a Curriculum vitae and a cover letter to Dr. April Rose at april.rose@mcgill.ca.

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Full-time Research Assistant

Full-time Study Coordinator

The Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research (LDI) is seeking applicants for a full-time research assistant position in the Montreal Immune-Related Adverse Events (MIRAE) team. The purpose of the MIRAE study is to facilitate research on immune-related adverse events (irAEs) secondary to immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), and traditional autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases. Currently the MIRAE study is using multi-omic single cell technologies, and other high-throughput assays, to profile immune cells in the blood and tissue lesions of ICI-treated cancer patients, as well as to identify clinically relevant soluble immune factors in their plasma.

The Research Assistant will be responsible for identifying eligible participants for the MIRAE study among the cancer patients treated with ICI-therapy in the JGH; obtaining informed consent for the biobanking of biological specimens, and the accessing of patient’s clinical data under the Health Canada GCP guidelines; blood processing for plasma separation, PBMC isolation, and subsequent storage and documentation in the ATiM database; preparing samples for the different MIRAE projects (e.g., gDNA and RNA isolation, PBMC stimulation assays); designing and performing experiments to test different sample processing and storage conditions adapted to specific downstream applications; and collecting and analyzing relevant clinical parameters. The ideal candidate holds a minimum of a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree and has 2 years’ experience working in a research lab.

Salary: Based on experience and qualifications (LDI salary scale for research assistants)
Hours: 35 hours per week (onsite)
Starting date: Immediately

Interested candidates are invited to submit a Curriculum vitae, a cover letter and references (names and contact information for two referees) to Manuel Flores (coordinator of MIRAE) and submitted electronically to the following email address: manuel.flores.molina.ccomtl@ssss.gouv.qc.ca.

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Full-time Post-doctoral Fellow

Full-time Study Coordinator

MITACS funds are available for the recruitment for a post-doctoral fellow, that will oversee large scale efficacy of targeted multi-walled carbon nanotubes for the photothermal ablation of xenograft prostate cancer tumors. As part of our route towards development of the technology for clinical applicability as a photothermal treatment for prostate cancer (PCa), we will be determining the efficacy of our Glu-urea-Lys-MWCNT nanoformulation platform by assessing tumor recurrence and disease-free outcomes The Glu-urea-Lys-MWCNT formulation uses a peptidomimetic compound that binds to the Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA); a PCa-specific surface receptor whose expression is correlated with disease onset and progression. The ideal candidate will have PhD and strong working experience with animal handling.

Salary: $50,000 per year
Starting date: September 1st, 2024

Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and cover letter by email to Dr. Mark Trifiro at: mark.trifiro@mcgill.ca and Dr. Miltiadis Paliouras at mpaliouras@guzzonanoresearch.ca.

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Data Analyst/Statistician

Full-time Study Coordinator

The Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology (Jewish General Hospital) is seeking a data analyst/statistician to assist in epidemiologic research in the area of infectious diseases. The ideal candidate has an MSc or PhD in mathematics or biostatistics or strong prior work experience with statistical analysis of health data, and will have skills in performing all functions in data management and programming, statistical design and analysis, and data interpretation. Experience in programming of large healthcare databases and the application of statistics to the field of medicine will be an advantage.

Salary: Competitive (commensurate with experience and qualifications)
Hours: 3-5 days per week
Starting date: Immediate

Please send a cover letter and CV that clearly describes your prior research experience to: Dr. Christina Greenaway.
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Research Coordinator

Full-time Study Coordinator

The Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology (Jewish General Hospital) is seeking a dynamic, motivated and highly organized individual to coordinate epidemiologic research in the area of infectious diseases and migrant health. The ideal candidate will have had prior experience in research. Candidates must have at least completed an MSc or MPH. Candidates with a PhD in Epidemiology, Public Health, or a related field will be given preference and are strongly encouraged to apply.

Salary: Competitive (commensurate with experience and qualifications)
Hours: 3-5 days per week
Starting date: Immediate

Please send a cover letter and CV that clearly describes your prior research experience to: Mr Karim Abou-Nader.

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