Associate Scientist

Title: Associate Scientist

Location: Gaithersburg, MD - lab based role, 100% onsite

Duration: 09/23/2024 to 03/22/2025

Pay: $37.3/hr

What you will do:

It This job is a lab-based research role, and you will have a significant opportunity to influence the direction of the work.

The work will be predominantly with human in vitro systems, working with primary and disease tissue-derived cells.

Ideally, you have strong expertise with cell culture and in vitro techniques assays such as Westerns, ELISAs, PCR.

Experience in primary cell culture systems is a plus.

Examples of accountability:

You will focus your contributions to a team focused on characterizing novel biology pathways pertinent to chronic lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) to aid target validation and drug projects

In a team setting, you will contribute by applying molecular and cellular biology techniques, and to interpret and communicate results to team members

Essentials for the role:

A Master's or Bachelor’s degree in biology or related fields

Highly organized and self-motivated, with the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team to contribute to research projects

Demonstrated ability to design and conduct laboratory projects/experiments, develop methods, generate and interpret scientific data; competent in trouble shooting and critiquing data

Additionally, the optimal candidate will possess:

Strong hands-on skills in basic biochemical and molecular techniques including cell culture, quantification of mRNA (qPCR) and protein expression; ELISA, as well as assay development

Expertise in primary human cell culture

Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to critically analyze datasets

The ability to work as part of a team and collaborate with colleagues across a variety of discipline

0-3 years of experience

Desirable for the role:

Experience in MSD and IHC

Experience with PowerPoint, Excel, GraphPad Prism

Drug discovery experience is a plus