Staff Research Associate II - Surgery

The candidate will work as a full-time Staff Research Associate II (SRA II) in a cutting-edge regenerative medicine research laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Gerald Lipshutz. More specifically, the SRA II will primarily work on a mouse model of metabolic disease, using a gene therapy treatment to correct the abnormality and analysis of organs, blood and tissues for expression levels. The candidate will perform a variety of routine experimental protocols and procedures at a fully operational level, including but not limited to, animal experiments, use of human specimens, cell and tissue culture, DNA/RNA/genomic DNA extraction, ELISA and western blots. The SRA II will also take on a significant portion of the lab management duties, including supply management, ordering, and equipment maintenance and calibration. The candidate will also coordinate and assist with general lab support activities (e.g. making common lab reagents). The SRA II candidate will have some supervisory responsibilities as the day-to-day manager of the undergraduate students and other part-time members of the Lipshutz Lab. The full hourly salary range for this position is $32.79 - $52.75. The department's target hourly rate is $34.81.