Medical Researcher
About Ancestralize
We are an early-stage startup building software for assessing health status and helping in health improvement. Worsening food quality and pollution are increasing chronic illnesses. The health industry is on the wrong track, focusing on treating symptoms with drugs instead of curing diseases. Our mission is to solve the health crisis by equipping people with knowledge and tools to defeat chronic diseases.
More details on the company: ancestralize.com.
About the job
As a researcher, you will take part in building the medical intelligence of our app. The software will guide users in their journey toward health using lifestyle and dietary changes using AI (a Bayesian network). The “brain” of the system is a knowledge base used to generate an assessment of potential diseases. The app will help the user create a plan for improvement and track progress.
We look for people with an in-depth knowledge of disease mechanisms and who understand the impact of evolution on biology. We only hire people with a critical mindset.
Your activities will be:
Researching the causal relationships between chronic diseases and related variables (risk factors, pathological mechanisms, symptoms, lab markers, etc.)
Evaluating medical literature for relative risks, sensitivity and specificity values for labs, and other statistical information needed for probabilistic disease models.
Drawing disease mechanisms, adding probabilities estimations based on literature data, etc., to our Knowledge Base Editor graphical tool, and improving the accuracy of predictions of the Bayesian network.
Supporting users (expected in the future)
We are seeking individuals with:
In-depth knowledge of disease mechanisms
A strong understanding of the impact of evolution on biology
A critical and analytical mindset
About the location
Both remote and onsite work (in our Budapest office) is possible. European or East Coast US time zones are preferred for remote work.