• Job Type: Support Staff - Union
• Bargaining Unit: SSA
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Building: Hammer Health Sciences Building
• Salary Range: $55,112.05 - $55,112.05

Position Summary

The Department is seeking a motivated individual to assist/work on Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine to treat inherited dystrophies leading to blindness. diseases include retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, and Stargardt disease. The Technician B would be responsible for aiding the PI in performing administrative and writing-based tasks to support this research. They would also be responsible for helping laboratory members with manuscript editing and IRB/IACUC management, phenotype patients with known DNA mutations and testing the efficacy of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy.

Responsibilities

• Patient specific stem cell disease modeling.       
• Carry out laboratory management duties including the ordering of laboratory equipment, reagents, chemicals, animals and general supplies.
• Maintain equipment for histology, immunohistochemistry, light and fluorescent microscopy.       
• Manage mouse colonies and record keeping.     
• Under the supervision of the PI, assist with budgets and manage financial resources of the laboratory.   
• Administrative duties related to manuscripts/grant application.                                                                  
• Assist with preparing manuscripts/grant applications
• Compose clinical research reports                     
• Teach and train laboratory technicians and students.
• Any other duties assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biology or physics or a completed animal husbandry program or equivalent in education, training and experience.
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Must be able to work effectively with minimal supervision
• Computer skills required

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 year experience working in a research laboratory setting desirable
• Experience in grant application, project conducting, and manuscript preparation for paper submission
• Broad knowledge and excellent skills in a wide-variety of molecular biology methods from very fundamental to advanced technologies, including tissue culture (cell line, primary cell, stem cell), mouse handling, mouse model creating (transgene, knock-in, knock-out), gene therapy/editing techniques (CRISPR, TALEN, Zinc finger) in vitro and in vivo, etc.

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