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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:31PM (#12409361)
Healx (https://healx.io) | Cambridge, UK | Natural Language Processing Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE

Healx is a funded startup using genomic data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find existing drugs that could treat rare diseases. There are over 7,000 rare diseases that affect an estimated 350 million people worldwide, most of which lack effective treatment.

We are currently recruiting an engineer with expertise in natural language processing to be responsible for our biomedical text mining work - extracting and learning from millions of relationships in scientific literature.

You'll join a small team of developers with expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning and software engineering. As an early employee in an ambitious, growing startup company you'll be able to make a significant contribution to our technical direction.

For more information please see: https://healx.io/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) on Monday August 01, 2016 @03:10PM (#12205066)
Healx (https://healx.io) | Cambridge, UK | Natural Language Processing Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE

Healx is a funded startup using genomic data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find existing drugs that could treat rare diseases. There are over 7,000 rare diseases that affect an estimated 350 million people worldwide, most of which lack effective treatment.

We are currently recruiting an engineer with expertise in natural language processing to be responsible for our biomedical text mining work - extracting and learning from millions of relationships in scientific literature.

You'll join a small team of developers with expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning and software engineering. As an early employee in an ambitious, growing startup company you'll be able to make a significant contribution to our technical direction.

For more information please see: https://healx.io/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016) on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @10:53AM (#12086585)
Healx (https://healx.io) | Cambridge, UK | Natural Language Processing Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE

Healx is a funded startup using genomic data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find existing drugs that could treat rare diseases. There are over 7,000 rare diseases that affect an estimated 350 million people worldwide, most of which lack effective treatment. Healx is a social enterprise using drug repurposing to radically reduce the time to find novel treatments for rare diseases.

We are currently recruiting an engineer with expertise in natural language processing to be responsible for our biomedical text mining work - extracting and learning from millions of relationships in scientific literature.

You'll join a small team of developers with expertise in bioinformatics, machine learning and software engineering. As an early employee in an ambitious, growing startup company you'll be able to make a significant contribution to our technical direction.

For more information please see: https://healx.io/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015) on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @06:36PM (#10659758)
Healx (http://healx.io) | Full Stack Web Developer | Cambridge, UK | Full time | Onsite

We're an early stage life science startup doing computational drug repositioning to find treatments for rare and orphan diseases.

We're hiring a full stack web developer to build interfaces for our internal databases and tools to provide query, display and visualisation capabilities for complex biological data. You'll also work on a web application we're making publicly available to help patient groups, charities and researchers track and understand new rare disease literature and data.

We're ideally looking for experience in JavaScript and Python but will be flexible for the right person. You will work alongside other software developers, scientists and bioinformaticians, using your skills to help solve problems that really matter.

Please take a look at http://healx.io/jobs and get in touch if you have any questions.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015) on Thursday October 01, 2015 @01:30PM (#10312876)
Healx - Cambridge, UK

We're looking for a machine learning expert and a Bioinformatician to help us find existing drugs to treat rare and orphan diseases - http://healx.io/jobs

Healx is a startup based in Cambridge, UK. We raised a seed round earlier this year and are now building a team. We combine in-depth drug repurposing expertise (our chairman developed and repurposed Viagra) with 'omics data analysis, data mining and machine learning to find new uses for existing drugs.

Our focus is on rare diseases where we work closely with patient groups and charities to help accelerate research.

Re:We Built a Hacker News for Biotech on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:04PM (#7482079)
Great that solvers.io is seeing some activity, it's such a good idea.
Re:Ask HN: Who is Hiring? on Thursday June 17, 2010 @01:12PM (#1439574)
Cambridge, UK - InterMine

We're looking for a web developer with great UI design skills to work on InterMine - a platform becoming widely adopted among academic genomics databases for flexible query & analysis of biological data.

http://www.intermine.org/wiki/NowHiring

Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe? on Sunday May 16, 2010 @10:37AM (#1352063)
We're not a startup, but we're hiring in Cambridge, UK:

http://www.intermine.org/wiki/NowHiring

We're a small team at Cambridge University building web software for querying and analysing biology/genomics data that's being adopted by several big academic sites.

Re:How Advertising Works, and Why It Won’t For Facebook on Saturday May 10, 2008 @06:40AM (#186267)
Perhaps the key to making social network ads work is knowing where people are. AdWords has made marketing many, many internet only niche businesses possible. Privacy issues aside, Facebook could allow local bricks and mortar businesses to reach people geographically nearby via the internet.

While Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends who don't live nearby, I'm also friends with people that live in the same town and I see all the time - to see photos, arrange events, etc. You can join a group for the city you live in.

So, Facebook knows where people are and that some proportion of their friends live there too. Now there is new market for offline businesses - garages, restaurants, bars, shops - to reach local people on the web.

There are even Facebook groups for people that work in the same company. I'm sure the pizza place across the road from one of their buildings would like to advertise their promotion to everyone in that group.