Research Associate, Stem Cell/Cancer Research

Why Children's Research Institute?
Children's Research Institute (CRI) mission addresses fundamental scientific questions related to the biological basis of disease. Through transformative biomedical research, CRI faculty seek breakthroughs that change scientific fields and yield new strategies for treating disease.

Job Summary

Dr. Sean Morrison laboratory has an opening for a non-clinical Research Associate to join the team. The Morrison laboratory focuses on mechanisms that maintain adult tissues and how cancer cells hijack these mechanisms to enable the formation of tumors. The ideal candidate is an organized, proactive professional who will support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows studying the mechanisms by which melanomas metastasize.

Essential duties

• Master flow cytometry and tissue culture techniques
• Perform tumorigenesis and metastasis assays in mice
• Work collaboratively as part of a team and independently

Experience and Education

• Master's degree with major coursework in field of assignment and three (3) years of laboratory experience including at least two years at level of Research Assistant II or equivalent. 
• Bachelor's degree with major coursework in field of assignment and four (4) years of laboratory experience including two years at level of Research Assistant II or equivalent.

Job Duties

• Recommends and/or initiates new or modified procedures and techniques based upon latest developments in assigned field or analysis of research data.
• Performs computer programming for accumulation and analysis of research data.
• Designs, constructs, repairs, or modifies electronic and/or mechanical equipment or apparatus used in experiments and research projects.
• Instructs medical students, graduate students, residents, or other laboratory personnel of lower grade with respect to techniques, procedures, and equipment utilized in research or experiments.
• Assists principal investigator and other professional personnel in writing of reports and papers for publication.
• May provide working supervision to employees of lower grade engaged in performance of variety of difficult and complex laboratory work tasks.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Work requires thorough knowledge of various types of equipment used in laboratory to which assigned.
• Work requires extreme accuracy in all phases of research and experimental investigation.
• Work requires exercise of considerable judgment in application of policy, procedures, or techniques to work problems.

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