Associate Scientist (6+ Month Contract // San Diego, CA)
Duties/Responsibilities:
Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings.
Evaluate effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, parasites, and microorganisms at various levels.
Follow strict safety procedures when handling toxic materials to avoid contamination.
Investigate cause, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission of diseases or parasites.
Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
Prepare and analyze organ, tissue and cell samples to identify toxicity, bacteria, or microorganisms, or to study cell structure.
Standardize drug dosages, methods of immunization, and procedures for manufacture of drugs and medicinal compounds.
Confer with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others to develop health safety standards and public health improvement programs.
Study animal and human health and physiological processes.
Consult with and advise physicians, educators, researchers, and others regarding medical applications of physics, biology, and chemistry.
Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians.
Use equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, electron microscopes, flow cytometers and chromatography systems.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Deep technical understanding of, and hands-on experience with, molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology, gene editing techniques, and cell biology.
Cell culture, western blot, electrophoresis, ELISA, flow cytometry, PCR/qPCR/ddPCR, microscopy (bright field, fluorescent, confocal, etc.), etc.
Experience in optimizing methods with particular emphasis on cell-based potency assays, molecular biology assays, microscopy, and protein chemistry assays
