Scientific Lead, Multi-omics

Scientific Lead, Multi-Omics

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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Scientific Lead, Multi-Omics, working with The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)®. This position can be home-based.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, grant-funded opportunity. Funding will expire one year from the start date.

Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart is an innovation portfolio of the American Heart Association focused on transforming food systems into measurable drivers of human and planetary health. Within Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart, The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)® builds the scientific infrastructure to move food toward a health solution.

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)® is a science-to-action effort of the Rockefeller Foundation managed by the American Heart Association. PTFI offers standardized multi-omics tools, data, and training to a global ecosystem to characterize food quality and biomarkers of consumption and health. Our global ecosystem is mapping food quality across macronutrients, micronutrients, and specialized metabolites, and their variation across food systems.

PTFI's vision is a world where stakeholders in food, agriculture, and health are enabled to lead data-driven solutions that deliver healthy food from sustainable food systems.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

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The Scientific Lead, Multi-Omics drives demand for PTFI tools and data while leading laboratory expansion, enablement, and technical support across the global ecosystem. The role also contributes to analysis and translation of multi-omics datasets including advancing clinically relevant thresholds to expand adoption and application of PTFI findings across research, clinical, and food system contexts.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart, this role provides scientific leadership to ensure scalable development and implementation of PTFI's standardized multi-omics methodologies for food composition analysis and food–health research. The Scientific Lead supports growth of the PTFI laboratory network by identifying and onboarding high-capacity laboratories, aligning training resources and analytical workflows, and guiding harmonized data generation and interpretation across the ecosystem to enable biomarker discovery, cross-study comparability, and translation of molecular food composition data into biological and clinical insights.

Global Lab Network Expansion

• Identify, assess, and engage high-capacity analytical laboratories to join the PTFI global ecosystem.
• Conduct technical evaluations of prospective institutions, including instrumentation, workflows, personnel capacity, and infrastructure.
• Support scientific due diligence for laboratory partnerships, contracts, and agreements.
• Strengthen adoption of standardized PTFI tools, protocols, and datasets across academic, nonprofit, healthcare, and industry partners.
• Contribute to growing global demand for PTFI's standardized multi-omics tools and datasets through scientific partnerships and ecosystem engagement.

Multi-Omics Scientific Leadership for Food & Human Biospecimens

• Serve as in-house subject matter expert on multi-omics methodologies for food biomolecular characterization and human biospecimen analysis.
• Contribute to planning strategies for…