Postdoctoral Fellow | Temporary ; FTE | CHEO Research Institute

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**** Please send your resume with a cover letter to Dr. Kiran Polavarapu at  with the posting number in the subject line. Although we appreciate the interest of all candidates, only candidates invited for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls please.
**** JOB DESCRIPTION
**** Posting # - RI-26-032
**** Posting Period – 7th to 27th July 2026
**** POSITION:
Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Disease Bioinformatics
** Polavarapu Research Group, CHEO RINew Position
** TERM:
** Full Time, 1.0 FTE, 2-year contract with possibility of renewal
** SALARY:** $28.00 - $33.00 per hour, will be commensurate with skills and experience
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** Dr. Kiran Polavarapu Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Inc. (“CHEO RI”) is the research arm of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre (“CHEO”) and an affiliated institute of the University of Ottawa. We acknowledge that Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabek territory. The Algonquin Anishinabek Nation have lived on this territory for millennia and we honour them and this land.

Their culture and presence have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. CHEO RI also honours all First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and their valuable past and present contributions to this land. CHEO is a beloved institution and workplace that is widely recognized for being an anchor in our community. CHEO RI works to create new knowledge and evidence to support CHEO in its provision of world-class care to our children.

Our mission at CHEO RI is to connect exceptional talent and technology in pursuit of life-changing research for every child, youth and family in our community and beyond.
** CHEO RI has an immediate requirement for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Rare Disease Bioinformatics.
** We are seeking a highly motivated and computationally skilled Postdoctoral Fellow to lead the bioinformatics aspects of the genomics and multi-omics research activities within the Polavarapu Research Group at CHEO RI. The successful candidate will contribute to projects focused on rare neuromuscular and neurodevelopmental disorders, with emphasis on computational approaches to genomic data analysis, in silico variant interpretation, AI-enabled bioinformatics approaches, and development of scalable analytical workflows.

Working within a multidisciplinary and collaborative research environment, the postholder will provide computational and bioinformatic expertise to a team working on the integration of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, phenotypic, and publicly available datasets for variant interpretation, gene discovery, genotype–phenotype studies, and translational rare disease research.

The position involves close collaboration with clinicians, wet-lab scientists, bioinformaticians, and international research consortia. The successful candidate will contribute to the development and implementation of modern computational genomics workflows, including emerging AI/ML-based analytical approaches and reproducible bioinformatics pipelines.
** MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
** The Postdoctoral Fellow will:
* Develop, optimize, and maintain scalable and reproducible bioinformatics workflows for genomic analysis and variant interpretation
* Support development and implementation of AI/ML-enabled bioinformatics and variant interpretation workflows
* Perform end-to-end genomic analyses including:  + FASTQ processing  + Alignment  + Variant calling  + Annotation  + Variant prioritization and…