I am partnered with an exciting Biotech company out of Thousand Oaks, CA looking to grow their team with a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate!

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with multidisciplinary scientific groups including discovery specialists and in vivo team members
• Conduct pharmacology studies in animal models of metabolic, cardiovascular, and age-related disorders to evaluate therapeutic candidates through multiple readouts
• Contribute to study design, planning and performing of in vivo studies related to early exploratory indications, tolerability, PK/PD, and therapeutic efficacy
• Hands-on in vivo skills to perform standard procedures including rodent handling, blood collection, dosing through multiple routes (IV, IP, SC, PO), urine collection, necropsies, and tissue collection in compliance with approved IACUC protocols and AAALAC regulations
• Experience in breeding, expanding animal colonies, and genotyping is preferred
• Prepare facilities and sterilize instruments for animal procedures
• Maintain accurate records of procedures performed on animals
• Record in-life experimental data accurately and following approved company guidelines
• Experience in assessing biomarkers (e.g. Luminex, Western blot, PCR, ELISA ) in animal tissues and cell extracts is preferred

Your profile:

• B.Sc or MS with minimum 3 years of research experience
• Strong in vivo background
• Experience in molecular biology techniques: ELISAs, Western blot, protein extraction from cell cultures and animal tissues, and Luminex-based multiplex platform (as a plus)
• Familiarity with the basic lab software: Microsoft Office, GraphPad Prism, ELN for the record keeping
• Collaborative and broad thinking
• Great communication skills and able to present to others