Job Details
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
1. Assist in the development, validation, and transfer of new tissue processing and cell
sample preparation methods and/or cell pathway and signaling assays for cancer
cells from various tissue
2. Culture and prepare consistent batches of human cells for assays
3. Participate in clinical studies, study set up and generation of results
4. Perform assays to identify and sort cell types by biomarkers
5. Perform genotypic and pathway characterizations for human cells
6. Collaborate with science Directors to develop new assays or troubleshoot existing assays
7. Management and organization of laboratory resources, instruments, procedures/protocols.
8. Provide documentation control support, including cell assay R&D results records,
specimen and results database, and procedures.
9. Follow the laboratory's procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses,
reporting and maintaining records of patient test results;
10. Maintain records that demonstrate that proficiency testing samples are tested in the same
manner as patient specimens;
11. Adhere to the laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities,
instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed;
12. Follow the laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not
within the laboratory's established acceptable levels of performance;
13. Be capable of identifying problems that may adversely affect test performance or reporting
of test results and either must correct the problems or immediately notify the general
supervisor, technical supervisor, clinical consultant, or director;
14. Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate from the laboratory's
established performance specifications
. Report to work as scheduled.
16. Maintain compliance with HIPAA requirements, follow laboratory standard operating
procedures and CAP/CLIA regulations; adhere to safety regulations
17. Assist with lab quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) programs
18. Manage staff that is assigned to projects the Research Scientist is responsible for
Qualifications:
1. Advanced Degree preferred in Bioengineering, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology,
Oncology, or Translational or Systems Medicine, with experience in research laboratory in
molecular cell biology, human cell culture and microplate-based live cell assay
development
1.1. Ph.D. with minimum of 5 years post-doctoral experience developing activity-based live
cell assays for small molecules,