Job Detail

Job Title:Research Assistant 2

Department:10520-Neag Cancer Center (SOM)

Location:Farmington

FTE%:1

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Search #:2023-1416

Closing Date:07/11/2023

Recruiter:Alexander, Donna

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This position is Benefit eligible; click here for an overview of available benefits.

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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Research Assistant to our growing Cancer Center team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

 

At UConn Health, this class is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks for assigned research projects, programs or segments. This position will work in the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center within the School of Medicine located in Farmington, CT.

 

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED: https://h.uconn.edu/benefits-uhp-salary

 

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under the general supervision of an employee of higher grade in the performance of routine research duties and under closer supervision when performing more advanced tasks.

 

 

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May lead/supervise lower level employees as assigned.

 

 

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

May conduct routine technical laboratory tests including semen analyses, radioimmunoassay’s, microscopic, chemical, and/or other related tests

May prepare and maintain cultures; may make both simple and moderately complex solutions

May perform animal dissection to obtain samples for study; may inject laboratory animals and draw blood and serum

May perform data collection; may perform data analysis; records and reports test results

May interview research participants

Research literature to determine methods applicable to the study being performed

Performs laboratory maintenance

Performs related duties as required.

 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

Knowledge of relevant research protocols, principles and practices

Knowledge of scientific techniques

Knowledge of experimental design, mathematics/statistics, relevant computer applications, laboratory equipment and procedures

Knowledge of a science such as chemistry, biology, microbiology, pharmacology

Knowledge of physical and data resources in applicable scientific fields

Oral and written communications skills

Ability to identify, produce, organize, analyze, evaluate, interpret and present data.

 

 

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

General Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in the appropriate discipline, i.e., Biology, Medical Technology, Biochemistry, Psychology, degrees in other areas may be substituted on a case by case basis.

One (l) year of research experience in a relevant discipline

 

 

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Incumbents in this class may be required to undergo periodic tests or immunizations for communicable diseases.

 

 

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Incumbents in this class may occasionally be required to lift heavy objects such as standard laboratory equipment and/or trays/boxes or glassware

may be exposed to such hazards as broken glass, toxic vapors, radioactive materials, and toxic or disease carrying substances.

 

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

Experience working in a research lab, preferably in the field of immunology and/or cancer research along with work with animals, specifically mice including culturing animal cells and tumor implantation

Experience with assays including tetramer decay assays and heat shock protein purification assays

Experience with scientific equipment including but not limited to Flow Cytometry equipment and centrifuges.

 

 

SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 Hours per week, primarily 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday, weekends, holidays and other shifts as assigned, 30-minute unpaid meal break. 

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow. 

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