Research Assistant
The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is an independent, non-profit biomedical research organization located in Torrance, California. Researchers across dozens of laboratories are investigating heart and kidney disease, cardiac complications in newborns, chronic lung disease, skin cancer, sickle cell disease, autoimmune disorders, and more. Many projects are collaborative, involving experts from different specializations. Discoveries made here have prevented blindness in newborns, enabled premature infants with fragile lungs to breathe, and allowed children with rare, often fatal diseases to grow up healthy and strong.
About the role
We are seeking a research assistant to join our lab at the Lundquist Institute in Torrance, CA. The candidate will work under direct supervision to support research activities and is expected to have a bachelor's degree in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research experiments and perform assignments of varying complexity with minimal direction.
- Compile data and compute results for a variety of research procedures, tests, and techniques.
- Perform and train to use equipment for immunology, molecular genetics, western blotting, DNA & RNA isolation from tissues, RT qPCR, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, and digital image analysis.
- Perform all in vitro and in vivo experiments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or a related field.