Position Title: Senior ScientistDuration: 12 MonthsLocation: New York, NY 10016Shift hours: M - F 8 am - 5 pm Job Description:The Senior Scientist will support the validation of Client therapeutic candidates by performing hands-on, bench-level assays involving both cell culture and tissue-based work, and as well as sample processing and analyses from in vivo animal studies. The ideal candidate will be a team player, with strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, as well as have a shared passion for delivering new therapies to patients with critical unmet medical need.
- Support cell culture platform work including iPSC-derived cells.
- Perform molecular biology and cell biology assays including DNA/RNA extraction, qRT-PCR, ELISA.
- Help manage in vivo studies conducted with CROs, and with academic collaborators, including shipment coordination and sample inventory management
- Maintain electronic laboratory notebooks, write study reports, and present data to the team
- Critically assess data generated from diverse experimental approaches in cell and molecular biology.
- Train new team members in use of equipment, laboratory procedures, protocols, and safety procedures as needed.
Quals-- - Bachelors's degree with 2+ years of work experience in academia or industry.
- Experience in generating and working with iPSC-derived cells, disease models strongly desired.
- Expertise in basic techniques in molecular biology and cell biology, assay development in cell lines, primary neurons and iPSC-derived cells.
- Good understanding and experience working with AAVs preferred
- Excellent interpersonal, organization skills, initiative and attention to detail.
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a fast-paced, highly collaborative scientific environment.
- Neuroscience background preferred, but not required