The past decade has clearly demonstrated that the digitization of data unleash a novel playground for creating digital ecosystems fueled by user-driven innovations and needs. The emergence of the Internet together with the rise of Computational Technologies has enabled a digitalization which makes data computable - ie. algorithms can integrate and search across large heterogeneous data sets - which means the data can be converted to information and then into knowledge. Today we witness a similar development within the healthcare and medical sector and ultimately our own bodies. Genomic technologies, Algorithms, Computing Power, and their application to Clinical Problems and fundamental Biological Questions provide unprecedented opportunities.

Resarch within the Unit for Computational Medicine exploits this new landscape. In our mission to understand life and combat disease, we search for outstanding candidates, with a sincere heart and a sharp brain, who are thrilled to make a difference in our quest. If this is you, please send your letter of interest to pernilla.appelquist@ki.se.

We are currently searching for eight computational postdocs.Deadline has passed 31th of January, 2012. Two positions in Medical Informatics, DistributedDatabases, UbiCompMobile three Bioinformatics positions, BioInfo, and three positions in Computational Biology. CompBio.

The Unit of Computational Medicine is a strategic initiative generously supported by the Stockholm County and Karolinska Institutet. We belong to the Foundation for the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, and Karolinska University Hospital.

All research groups at KI & Karolinska University Hospital (>500 groups) were subjected to the External Research quality Assessment - ERA 2011- was performed by a panel of international reviewers. The Unit obtained the highest grade and was deemed Outstanding thus belonging to the top 10 % at KI.

We are >20 researchers in the Unit, the majority with a PhD. The unit has two research groups and four project leaders, see ongoing research projects in the Unit and list of members. Pernilla Appelquist operates as an Executive Assistant for Prof Tegnér amd the Unit.

Jesper Tegner
Head of Unit Strategic Professor in Computational Medicine

Pernilla Appelquist
Executive Assistant, pernilla.appelquist@ki.se, +46 72 530 75 53