Summary

The Research Associate - Abdominal Transplant will play a critical role in advancing the Transplant Institute’s mission to advance groundbreaking research, enhance patient care, and education.  Ideal candidate will be self-directed, organized and strong with developing manuscripts and grant applications.

Job Duties

• Assists the PIs to develop, edit, and review grant proposal narratives, applications, and supporting documents.
• Plans, directs and conducts research experiments.
• Evaluates and analyzes patient related research data.
• Develops research techniques and performs applications required for specific research projects.
• May conduct literature searches and summarize information in an appropriate format for a particular study.
• Develops and published manuscripts.
• Documents results of experiments and reports to principal investigators.
• Writes reports for government, foundations and/or other sponsors.
• May supervise, schedule and coordinate the activities of less experienced research staff.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in Basic Science or a related field.  Experience in lieu of degree will not be accepted.
• Three years of relevant experience typically as a Research Assistant, Research Technician or Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Doctoral degree