41 staff research associate ii jobs found

Description The Department of Molecular & Medicine and Pharmacology is seeking to hire a motivated Staff Research Associate II to assist scientists and perform research-related duties in a UCLA cancer biology laboratory. In this role, you will perform various laboratory tasks using molecular biology, cell biology and biochemical techniques. These tasks include but are not exclusive to western blot, PCR, molecular cloning, generation of genetically modified cell lines, metabolite analysis, primary immune cell culture and flow cytometry. You will also be responsible for maintaining laboratory supplies, inventories and organization. Finally, you will be expected to engage with established laboratory team members to progress research projects, keep an organized notebook, construct research reports with supervisor guidance and present research activities at laboratory group meetings. Target hourly rate: $28.04-$45.11 Qualifications Required Qualifications: * Ability to...

Description Play a key role with a world-renowned leader in medical research. Help advance medical knowledge and leading-edge patient care. Take your career to a higher level. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health. Under the general supervision of the Image Processing Lab Supervisor and the Computer Vision and Imaging Biomarkers (CVIB) Lab director(s), the Staff Research Associate II (SRAII) will be involved in all aspects of the CVIB Lab including but not limited to data collection and computer analysis. As an important member of the Department of Radiological Sciences, you will execute the transfer of image and other data into research databases for analysis. It is required that you independently perform data collection and analysis procedures pertaining to ongoing and new research projects under the direction of investigators and senior management. As the SRAII you will provide significant contributions pertaining to the design and execution of experimental...

Description The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology is seeking to hire a Staff Research Associate II to synthesize organic intermediates and radiolabeled compounds to drive groundbreaking research. Your role will involve the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals, skillfully labeled with short-lived radionuclides through advanced radiopharmaceutical techniques. Drawing upon your expertise in organic and analytical chemistry, you will employ techniques to enhance synthesis processes. In this role, you will handle gamma ray emitting radionuclides, ensuring a safe working environment. Your proficiency in rapid chemical and physical preparative and separation procedures will be indispensable. Furthermore, your contribution extends to assisting in the development of fully automated systems for radiopharmaceutical preparations. You will also have the opportunity to prepare organic intermediates and purify them, elucidating their structure through sophisticated spectroscopic...

Description The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking to hire a full-time Staff Research Associate II to join the DMH+UCLA Public Mental Health Partnership (PMHP). You will work under the project Principal Investigator to coordinate and collaborate with our community-based partners to help improve quality of care in the public mental health system. Primary duties include: * Scheduling, organizing, assisting with and/or leading meetings, activities, and events involving collaboration between our PMHP team and community mental health partners * Learning about and communicating with a variety of mental health providers and administrators working across LA County * Develop tools and resources to address training needs and infrastructure for mental health providers * Data management including areas such as processing, cleaning, and tracking of data * Assist with development of reports, progress tracking, and presentations * General clerical...

Description The Semel Institute is seeking to hire a full time Staff Research Associate II. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and Project Director, the SRA II will be responsible for coordinating activities for specified components of a multi-county evaluation study (or studies) of substance abuse treatment delivery across the State of California, with respect to the tasks and functions described below. Other duties will be assigned as needed by the Project Director and PI. Pay Range: $27.09 - $43.68 hourly Qualifications * B.A. /B.S. in Social Science or related field. (Preferred) * Demonstrated experience in health related research or evaluation projects (minimum of 2 years). (Required) * Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, verbally, and in writing, with subjects, staff, and supervisors. (Required) * Experience with Literature reviews and summarizing/synthesizing complex journal level publications. (Required) * Skill in speaking and...

Description The Department of Medicine is seeking a highly organized and skilled individual to join us as a Staff Research Associate II in the lab. Your ability to set priorities effectively, coupled with excellent written and oral communication skills, will contribute to the success of our demanding research environment. In this role, the capacity to handle multiple tasks efficiently under deadline pressure, is crucial. Your professionalism, sensitivity, and strong interpersonal skills will foster productive working relationships at all levels. Demonstrated experience in mouse handling and animal care, along with expertise in microbiology and molecular biology techniques, will play a pivotal role in conducting our research. Maintaining confidentiality and well-organized records of experiments and data analysis is essential. Finally, in this role you will perform animal and molecular techniques to support gnotobiotic research projects and provide technical support for the PI-run...

Description This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded person who enjoys working in a lab-based environment to provide support for ongoing mass spectrometry and proteomics projects. We are looking for a motivated Staff Research Associate II to work on a variety of projects with the laboratory to identify critical molecular targets in malignant gliomas and develop novel, brain-penetrant small molecule therapeutics to treat these brain cancers. Projects require application of a variety of quantitative methodologies, including proteome-wide protein expression and post-translational modification profiling to fully characterize biological systems, chemical proteomics approaches to determine drug mechanisms of action, and targeted quantification of drug concentrations in brain tissues and blood plasma. The main duties include routine sample preparation, advanced UHPLC-MS method development and optimization, as well as operation and maintenance of state-of-the-art LC-MS...

Description The Professor and Director of the UCLA Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research is looking for highly motivated applicants interested in a Researcher position to investigate mechanisms and novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. The Researcher conducts a broad array of experiments including cell and molecular, neural network, and behavior relationships in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. The Researcher is critical to manage mouse colonies, breedings, and cohorts. The Researcher interfaces with a translational group bridging bench discoveries with human clinical trials. The Laboratory studies mechanisms and novel treatments for seizures and related memory loss in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. In tandem, the clinical studies investigate network hyperexcitability in Alzheimer's disease, and include clinical trials of anti-seizure drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease-associated network hyperexcitability (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02002819)....

Description The Social Neuroscience and Health Psychology Lab is in search of an Staff Research Associate 2 to assist in the administration and scoring of neuropsychological assessments, clinical interviews and functional assessments as part of a research study examining the neurological and neurobehavioral consequences of HIV infection. Responsibilities will include: * Data management * Assistance with project coordination (e.g., scheduling participants) * Performing MRI scans, preprocessing of neuroimaging data, and quality assurance checks. * Community outreach to organizations * Coordination of meetings between the PI and community partners. Pay Range: $28.04 - $45.11 hourly Qualifications * Former student of Psychology or related field - preferred * Experience with SPSS and Excel - required * Must be extremely detailed-oriented - required

Description The Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging is seeking a highly skilled Staff Research Associate 2 to join our dynamic research team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in the development of preclinical disease models in the fields of oncology and fibrosis. This position requires exceptional in vivo skills, including expertise in the development and implementation of various disease models such as xenografts, orthotopic models, PDX models, bleomycin-induced fibrosis, and bile duct ligation models. In this role, you will also be responsible for dose administration of therapeutics and radioactive molecules, as well as tissue collection for downstream assessments. Responsibilities will also include developing and optimizing preclinical models of disease in oncology and fibrosis, including xenografts, orthotopic models, PDX models, bleomycin-induced fibrosis, and bile duct ligation models, collecting tissues for assessment, collaborating with the imaging...

Description The Environmental Cardiology and Vascular Biology Laboratory is seeking to hire a Research Assistant to perform experiments in the areas of vascular and molecular biology, lipidology, pathology, and toxicology. Experiments include: histological analyses of aortic and liver sections for atherosclerotic lesions and hepatic steatosis; pulmonary macrophage transplantation studies; bone marrow transplantation studies; assessment of gene expression by quantitative PCR in lungs, liver and aortas of animals exposed to air pollutants and e-cigarettes. Primary duties: •Conduct molecular biological procedures such as DNA and RNA extraction, gel electrophoresis, genotyping, western blots, real-time PCR, ELISAs, FPLC, ultracentrifugation •Determine tissue and cellular oxidative stress through various techniques, including assessment of oxidized lipids by mass spectrometry. Perform tissue culture experiments and analyze histological samples •Mouse colony management •Perform...

Description Under close supervision of Principal Investigator, you will primarily be responsible for all animals’ care including rats, mice and rabbits. Some duties include to breed, wean, immunize and screen different mouse strains. You will also be responsible for animal dissections, mouse or rat bleeds, tissue freezing, and tissue analysis. In addition, you will be responsible for genotyping as many as 10 different strains of mice by DNA isolation and PCR. You will perform the above under close supervision of the PI and oversee maintenance of laboratory equipment, tissue culture facilities and microscopy facilities. Pay Range: $27.09 - $43.58 Qualifications REQUIRED: Ability to design and execute experiments, analyze experimental results, define technical problems and formulate logical conclusions. Ability to understand scientific protocols Ability to work independently without close supervision. Ability to interact with laboratory coworkers in a manner...

Description Join our team @ UCLA! Great career opportunity in David Geffen School of Medicine's Neurosurgery Department. Ideal position for recent college graduates looking to gain research/clinical experience for moving onto graduate school or medical school. Responsibilities encompass: * Conducting scientific projects on the neural basis of human memory. Includes recording single neurons during cognitive tasks from patients with implanted electrodes in the hospital for epilepsy monitoring. Tasks also involve Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) under neurologist supervision for research on translational memory therapies. * Employing python, Matlab, BrainLab, ASHS, ANTS, FSL, and other computer programs for task prep and analysis. * Updating lab director with reports on patient progress. * Managing active lab with graduate, undergraduate students, and volunteers. * Keeping inventory, upkeep, and regular lab equipment/materials check and purchases. * Crafting reports, human...

Description Under the general supervision of the Principal Investigator (PI), the SRA II will conduct studies with a mouse model of white matter stroke examining acute injury mechanisms to axons and oligodendrocytes. The successful candidate will have had prior experience with rodent survival surgeries and in training of these techniques to others. The successful candidate will have at least two years of prior experience in neuroscience or a brain related field and be able to operate independently when performing experiments. Duties include, but are not limited to: perform precise stereotactic surgeries on mice, handle and inject lentiviral constructs into brain, process tissue for histological and immunohistochemical stains, independently run research project on mouse stroke modeling and injury response, supervise undergraduate Lab Helpers, train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in mouse surgery, drug and lentiviral delivery, participate in lab maintenance, supply...

Description Under the general supervision of the Principal Investigator (PI), the SRA II will conduct studies with a mouse model of white matter stroke examining acute injury mechanisms to axons and oligodendrocytes. The successful candidate will have had prior experience with rodent survival surgeries and in training of these techniques to others. The successful candidate will have at least two years of prior experience in neuroscience or a brain related field and be able to operate independently when performing experiments. Duties include, but are not limited to: perform precise stereotactic surgeries on mice, handle and inject lentiviral constructs into brain, process tissue for histological and immunohistochemical stains, independently run research project on mouse stroke modeling and injury response, supervise undergraduate Lab Helpers, train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in mouse surgery, drug and lentiviral delivery, participate in lab maintenance, supply...

Description Under the general supervision of the Principal Investigator (PI), the SRA II will conduct studies with a mouse model of white matter stroke examining acute injury mechanisms to axons and oligodendrocytes. The successful candidate will have had prior experience with rodent survival surgeries and in training of these techniques to others. The successful candidate will have at least two years of prior experience in neuroscience or a brain related field and be able to operate independently when performing experiments. Duties include, but are not limited to: perform precise stereotactic surgeries on mice, handle and inject lentiviral constructs into brain, process tissue for histological and immunohistochemical stains, independently run research project on mouse stroke modeling and injury response, supervise undergraduate Lab Helpers, train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in mouse surgery, drug and lentiviral delivery, participate in lab maintenance, supply...

Description Primary duties of the SRA II include technical and administrative tasks that support research in the human genetics field investigating the genetic cause of rare mendelian genetic diseases. SRAII will enroll human subjects, describe research, and gather additional clinical data from a variety of clinicians involved in the study project. SRAII will interact closely with clinical team and whole exome sequencing team, and must be highly knowledgeable about human genetics. Genetic Counseling background a large advantage. Must have knowledge of modern molecular sequencing techniques and be able to describe to research participants. Responsible for organizing, maintaining sample sets, which may include tissue samples, clinical data, DNA, and DNA data. Write and update work protocols. Organize and prepare IRB documents, and amendments. Work flexibly in a large team. Perform these and other duties, as needed, in a flexible fashion. PAY RANGE: $27.09 - 43.58...

Description Come join our exceptional Department of Neurobiology, and help lead the advancement of cutting-edge basic science research into explorations of the brain and central nervous system. In this Staff Research Associate II role you'll support highly technical and complex wet laboratory research procedures for projects with aggressive federally funded milestones through histological procedures and analyses utilizing animals. This role will: * Collaborate with principal investigator and other researchers to plan, design and conduct highly technical and complex research projects and experiments * Perform experiments on neuralmachinery underlying decision-making. * Develop workflows to meet all deadlines. * Identify appropriate species, time needed to perform the studies, the resources needed, and the personnel required to complete all projects and experiments. * Maintain data collection logs and accurate records of procedures used to conduct experiments. * Perform...

Description The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is seeking to hire a full-time Staff Research Associate II to join the Geschwind Lab. You will provide technical support to multiple members of the research team on projects investigating the molecular genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Primary duties include: * Coordinate biomaterial shipments with external collaborators * Extract DNA and RNA * Maintain biomaterial archives using a barcode-based inventory system * Prepare samples for downstream analyses * Perform PCR for genotyping * Data analysis * Maintain database of experimental results * Other duties as assigned Salary range: $27.09 -$43.58 Hourly Qualifications * Bachelor’s degree in related field * Minimum 3 years of wet lab experience * Experience with tissue culture or RNA (preferred) * proficiency using computer software applications including MS Excel, MS Word, Endnote, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, and other software...

Description Come join our Neurobiology team as a Staff Research Associate II. The Staff Research Associate II will support highly technical and complex wet laboratory research procedures for projects with aggressive federally funded milestones through histological procedures and analyses utilizing animals. You will collaborate with the principal investigator and other researchers to plan, design and conduct highly technical and complex research projects and experiments; performing experiments on neuralmachinery underlying decision-making. In this position you will develop workflows to meet all deadlines. The Staff Research Associate II identifies the appropriate species, time needed to perform the studies, the resources needed, and the personnel required to complete all projects and experiments. Salary range: $28.04-$45.11 Hourly Qualifications Required: - Broad theoretical and practical knowledge of standard organic, physical and analytical chemical methods. -...