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Research Assistant, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center - Georgetown University Medical Center

As one of approximately 140 academic health and science centers in the United States, Georgetown University Medical Center seeks to provide, in a synergistic fashion, excellence in education - training physicians, nurses and other health care professionals, as well as biomedical scientists - and cutting-edge interdisciplinary research collaboration , enhancing our basic science and translational biomedical research capacity in order to improve human health.

The Research Assistant provides a wide variety of moderately complex to complex technical support for a research lab. S/he assists in evaluating research methods, procedures, and techniques based on established objectives. Reporting directly to the Private Investigator (PI) as well as to the other lab members assigned by the PI the Research Assistant has additional duties that include but are not limited to:

• Orders supplies when necessary.
• Manages animal handling, collects tissues and processing.
• Handles cell culture and other lab techniques.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Associate degree; Bachelor's degree preferred
• 1-2 years of relevant experience
• Familiarity with day to day assistance required in the laboratory such as ordering reagents, and keeping inventories
• Ability to carry out the laboratory techniques such as Western blotting, PCR, RT-PCR
• Conversant with tissue culture techniques
• Experience in handling rodents, maintaining breeding colonies, as well as collecting tissues and their processing