Mass General Brigham

Senior Research Scientist

Mass General Brigham$70K — $113K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in a relevant field required
  • 5-7 years of experience in academic or laboratory research
  • Proficiency in supply chain and vendor management
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
  • Good organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Sound computer literacy and methodical data recording
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead high-impact translational research in neurodegenerative diseases
  • Design and conduct advanced experiments and computational analyses
  • Generate, analyze, and evaluate experimental data
  • Write and edit research publications
  • Supervise technical and support personnel
  • Provide training in laboratory and computational techniques

Benefits

  • Opportunity to collaborate with esteemed institutions like Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School
  • Access to advanced technology and multi-omic pipelines
  • Deeply translational research environment
  • Potential to influence therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases
  • Supportive educational environment for mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows
Full Job Description
Site: The General Hospital Corporation

Job Summary
The Wainger Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, and innovative Senior Scientist to lead high-impact translational research at the intersection of neurodegenerative diseases, stem cell biology, functional genomics, and computational biology.

The successful candidate will leverage human postmortem tissue analyses, patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) neuron models, and advanced bioinformatics/multi-omic pipelines to systematically discover, prioritize, validate, and develop novel therapeutic targets. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to work within a deeply translational environment closely aligned with the Healey Center for ALS at MGH, Broad Institute, and Harvard Medical School.

Independently carries out a broad range of technically advanced research activities and procedures; conceives of and designs experiments, evaluates conclusions, and has complete latitude to modify or devise methods and techniques as necessary to achieve desired results; may supervise technical and administrative elements of research unit.

Essential Functions
-Function as a skilled scientific specialist for the research unit or for a specific research project.
-Conducts broad range of experiments or computational analyses involving advanced technology/strategies; conceives of the objective of research studies and designs experimental protocols/computational analyses to achieve the objectives; generates, analyzes and evaluates experimental data; interprets the results of experiments/computational analyses.
-Writes and edits material for publication; may present papers or appear as principal or secondary author in publications.
-Provides direct supervision to technical and support personnel as assigned.
-Provides instruction in laboratory or computational techniques and methodology to students and postdoctoral fellows.

Qualifications

Education
Doctorate Related Field of Study required

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
No

Experience
Experience in an academic or laboratory research setting 5-7 years required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Proficiency in supply chain and vendor management.
- Ability to identify problems and troubleshoot solutions.
- Well-versed in laboratory standards and practices.
- Good organizational skills, detail-oriented.
- Sound degree of computer literacy.
- Ability to methodically record data.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Broad knowledge of scientific principles, biological structures, and laboratory techniques.

Additional Job Details (if applicable)

$70,000 - $113,000.

Remote Type

Onsite

Work Location

114 16th Street

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Employee Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

About Mass General Brigham

Mass General Brigham is an integrated healthcare system that offers patients a continuum of coordinated high-quality care. The system includes primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, the two founding academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers, and other health-related entities. Mass General Brigham was founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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