Researcher/Scientist III, Department of Child Health (College of Medicine-Phoenix)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Carry out advanced, multi-disciplinary research requiring knowledge of standard scientific protocols and principles.
• Troubleshoot and modify procedures and techniques when appropriate.
• Develop, design, and conduct complex research projects according to research protocol.
• Adapt new methods to existing procedures and modify current experiments through scientific knowledge and intuition.
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of all laboratory work and experiments.
• Derive, analyze, and format data for publications, presentations, and grant proposals.
• Perform statistical and graphical analysis of data.
• Independently reproduce, evaluate, research, and improve techniques currently used.
• Discuss relevant insights about experimental results with Faculty and provide useful recommendations and analysis.
• Present results at laboratory meetings, conferences, and publish papers.
• Ensure regulatory compliance of research activities.
• Write and submit grant proposals which includes preparing technical and/or scientific proposals for grants, developing and coordinating budgets, administrative elements, and needed materials.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of coordinating experiments, and completing analysis, statistics, and interpretation.
• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise manner orally and in writing.
• Ability to participate at scientific conferences and present findings.
• Ability to develop reports and present in tabular, oral, written, and graphic formats.
• Proficiency in using computers to automate tasks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in biomedical sciences or other sciences field of study required.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD degree.
• Microscopy experience, particularly fluorescence and confocal imaging and analysis.
• Flow cytometry, animal model.
• Experience with histology, immunohistochemistry and protein analysis.