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Scientist II In vivo
Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877 US
Job Description
Duties:
- Design, plan and execute experiments in a timely and independent manner leveraging scientific and technical expertise to achieve defined objectives.
- Independently initiate and complete routine in vivo study duties such as dosing by standard routes, identification, health monitoring and sample collection as well as tissue processing.
- Initiate and carry out assay development, optimization and validation as required.
- Utilize molecular techniques, tissue immunostaining and multi-color flow cytometry to aid in the understanding of drug mode of action.
- Routine maintenance of laboratory equipment.
- Ordering of laboratory consumables to ensure continuous supplies.
- Work well in a highly matrixed environment and support multiple projects at the same time.
- Work independently with the capability to troubleshoot experimental procedures.
- Provide training and guidance to laboratory personnel.
- Communicate own work effectively orally and in writing (writing protocols, procedures, and lab notebook).
- Report and treat data with a high level of integrity and ethics.
- Comply with applicable regulations, performing all work in a safe manner and maintains proper records in accordance with SOPs and policies.
Skills:
- Experience with animal handling, routine routes of injection, health monitoring, sample collection and tissue collection is required.
- Practical experience with general molecular biology techniques such as qPCR and nucleic acid extraction from tissues and cells is required.
- Ability to optimize and troubleshoot assays in the form of ELISA, Western blot or others is highly desirable.
- Practical experience with IHC/IF including downstream analysis is highly desirable.
- Experience in cell culture with both mammalian cell lines and primary immune cells would be a plus but is not required.
- Experience in other techniques and analyses including flow cytometry or tissue spatial analysis (10x visium etc.) is a plus but not required.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution with three-plus (3+) years of experience in related scientific discipline or Master’s Degree from an accredited institution in related scientific discipline or equivalent experience in related field.
Pay Rate Range: $30-40/hr depending on experience
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