What is a Biomedical Data Scientist?

Here you will find information about the different roles that exist within biomedical data science and links to help you find out more.

These roles include, but are not limited to:

  • Research software engineers
  • Bioinformaticians
  • Statisticians
  • Mathematical modelers
  • Structural biologists
  • Data stewards
  • Health data researchers
  • Systems biologists

 

Word cloud of biomedical data science roles

What roles exist?

Biomedical data science is very board term and encompasses many different roles vital  for scientific delivery and innovation. Below is a diagram of some of the vast range of data roles that exist to help you to think about where you might fit within the broader categories and terminologies of roles that are being used by communities, funders and in the wider landscape (e.g. Researchers versus dRTP). 

Diagram showing the breadth of roles within biomedical data science including example job titles

 

 

 

This list is not exhaustive, but is designed to highlight the breadth of roles and broader staff groups that exist within this space and where you might find support for different functions of your role, please get in touch if there are other roles or job functions you would like to see added.

 

 

 

Computational Research at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine

Listen to researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford talk about their roles and contributions to biomedical research.
 

Video produced by the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and Radcliffe Department of Medicine Communications Teams, University of Oxford