Senior Research Associate

Oregon Health & Science University
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Senior Research Associate
US-OR-Portland
Job ID: 2024-31475
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research
Portland, OR (Waterfront)
Overview

• Performing on-boarding required for essential lab functions for junior lab members including mouse colony management, and electronic notebooks.
• Designing and executing experiments; identifying, testing, and implementing novel experimental and organizational procedures in the lab, collecting, analyzing, and quantifying data;
• Putting together IACUC/IRB renewals, submitting amendments as needed for ongoing research in the laboratory. Ensure laboratory compliance with EHS policies.
• Authoring manuscripts for peer reviewed publication. Support grant applications for funding of the research laboratory.
• Attending and presenting research at lab meetings, seminars and conferences.
• Ordering, organizing, and maintain laboratory supplies.

Responsibilities

• PhD in relevant field AND 1 year of relevant experience OR

• Master's Degree in relevant field AND 5 years of relevant experience OR

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 9 years of relevant experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with model organisms, cell culture, functional analyses (proliferation/apoptosis assays, Western blot, real-time qPCR, etc.), and molecular cloning is required

Qualifications

• Experience working with human cells directly ex vivo.

• 7-10 years of experience in cancer immunotherapy laboratory setting.

• First-author publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

• Experience and knowledge about flow cytometry, flow sorting, TCR repertoire assays, in vivo murine tumor models, T cell functional assays and immunotherapy literature.

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