Senior Research Associate, Cellular Immunology ( 6 Month Contract)

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize and execute experiments using a variety of primary immune cells and tissues isolated from human, mouse or cynomolgus monkey (including PBMCs, monocyte-derived macrophages, whole blood, synovial fluid, peritoneal fluid, etc.)
• Routine profiling of compounds using Meso Scale Discovery (MSD), ELISA, Western blot, Simple Western (Jess), flow cytometry, qPCR assays
• Ex vivo mouse tissue processing (spleen, bone marrow, lymph node, etc.)
• Maintain timely and detailed notes using electronic lab notebook

Requirements

• MS or PhD equivalent in Immunology or Cell Biology with 3+ years of hands-on experience in I&I drug discovery research in a pharmaceutical setting
• Extensive experience handling whole blood, primary immune cells and tissue (preferably including clinical samples)
• Expert in protein detection/quantitation methodology (e.g., MSD, ELISA, Western blotting, Jess)
• Flow cytometry expertise is preferred
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Excel, GraphPad Prism (FlowJo is preferred)