What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Associate position at Planet Pharma?
6 month contract
Pay $32-36/hr
The ideal candidate will have a strong passion and curiosity for research. This candidate should be able to conduct experiments to supplement work when necessary and analyze various points of data to establish findings. This candidate should also have effective writing skills in order to write research proposals and create reports.
Responsibilities
- Request donor samples
- Isolate cells from human or monkey peripheral blood, set up cultures with isolated cells, perform cell stimulation or differentiation by test compounds, harvest cells and supernatants
- Prepare these samples for further analysis; run ELISA, Luminex or MSD tests to study immunosafety of compounds
- Analyze and present the data generated by these experiments.
Qualifications
- BS or MS & 3-5 years biochemistry or immunology lab experience
- Primary cell isolation and culture, sterile technique, pipetting samples, generating
- Titrations/dilutions, dealing with cells, making buffers
- ELISA, or other ligand binding assay basics
- In vitro cell assays
Salary : $32 - $36
