RESEARCHER SENIOR

As a Researcher Senior, you will have expanded responsibilities, overseeing complex or multiple research projects and providing strategic direction. This professional-level role involves mentoring junior researchers, managing project budgets, and ensuring the integrity and quality of research outcomes. Your expertise will be critical in guiding experimental design, data interpretation, and contributing to high-impact publications. Depending on the research focus, this position may involve research participant contact, research animal contact, and/or specimens.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs basic theoretical and experimental scientific and technological investigation including PCR, Real-Time PCR, molecular clone, transfection, SDS-PAGE, Westernblotting, Southern-blotting, etc.
• Tissue culture techniques (primary cell and transformed cell lines), preparation and titration of recombinant adenoviral, lentiviral and adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors.
• Performs a variety of tests requiring a high degree of proficiency.
• Conduct additional experiments in primary airway cell culture, cell line culture and maintenance, Histochemical /Immunofluorescence technique; tissue collection, embedding, cryosection, and data analysis.
• Handling animals (mouse and rabbit), evaluation of toxicity of veterinary medicine and viral infection on animal models.
• Basic histology procedures include paraffin and frozen section processing, tissue embedding, sectioning, HE staining, immuohistochemical and immunofluroscent staining, whole-mount embryo histochemical staining (X-gal).
• Mouse breeding and mouse embryo dissection (older than embryonic day 10). RNA technology, RNA isolation from tissues and cells, Northern blotting, RNA in situhybridization (whole mount embryos and sections), qRT-PCR.
• Provides advanced and specialized expertise, typically developed through a combination of job related training and considerable work experience.
• Supervisors and instruct experiments conducted by graduate and undergraduate students.
• Evaluates study results using statistical and multivariate analysis, may involve assistance in publishing findings.
• Provides technical support by performing complex research related tasks.
• Performs a variety of the complex tasks and proposes improvements to processes.
• Acts as a subject matter expert on research methods and equipment functions.
• Provide technical training to new personnel
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Salary Range: $60,835 - $81,555

Doctorate degree in a related field OR Master's degree in a related field and two (2) years of related experience OR Bachelor's degree in related field and four (4) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.

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Primary Location

University

Job Category

Scientific Research

Organization

311402800 Med - Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care

Employee Status

Regular

Shift

Day/1st Shift

Work Arrangement (final schedule to be determined by the department/hiring manager)

Onsite