Visiting Biostatistician - Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Visiting Biostatistician - Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Chicago, IL, United States

1043083

Posted on: 9/24/2026 - Final date to receive applications: 10/12/2026

Hiring Department:
Department of Medicine

Location:

Chicago, IL USA

Requisition

Salary:
The budgeted salary range for the position is $75,000 to $90,000. The pay offeredto the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including (butnot limited to) the experience and qualifications of the selected candidateincluding equivalent years in rank, training, and field or discipline; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs.

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities.

UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits . This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

The Visiting Biostatistician will mainly work with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. The Visiting Biostatistician will be involved in all states of the research process, and provides study design, data management, statistical analysis, quality assurance, and study management services to a broad array of cardiometabolic research, including multi-omics, clinical, preclinical, epidemiological, and translational studies, in addition to review of protocols and grant applications.

The Visiting Biostatistician will work under the guidance and in collaboration with Endocrinology faculty, and will provide statistical data support on design, analysis, interpretation and implementation to investigators for research/trial activities.

• Collaborate in the development of study designs, and specifically data processing and analytic protocols, for high dimensional multi-omics research of large epidemiologic studies. Analyses will include not only data cleaning and testing specific study hypotheses but utilizing AI/ML methods and performing sample size or power calculations.
• Use statistical and medical understanding to appropriately perform and advise investigators in data collection, management and analyses for multi-omics and traditional epidemiologic studies (i.e., genome wide association studies, longitudinal cohort studies and randomized controlled trials); provide interpretation and documentation of scientific data analyses, creates summaries, and present results in written and verbal form to investigator(s).
• Performs a range of activities to facilitate the design of research projects and clinical trials;
  Contributes data management of on-going longitudinal studies, dataset development,…