Research Services Laboratory Entry Professional

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 

Department: Neurosurgery

Job Title: Research Services Laboratory Entry Professional

Position #: 00849474– Requisition #:40159

Job Summary:

The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is hiring a Research Services Laboratory Entry Professional to support an active program of human deep brain stimulation (DBS) and intracranial electrophysiology research. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate planning to pursue graduate study or a clinical research career in neuroscience, neurology, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering, or a related field. The position offers direct exposure to intraoperative neural recordings, advanced neuromodulation studies in collaboration with industry partners, and the day-to-day operations of a clinically integrated research program.

The Research Services Laboratory Entry Professional will work closely with the Principal Investigator, neurosurgery and neurology clinical teams, and laboratory staff to coordinate participant visits, support intraoperative and outpatient data collection, manage regulatory documentation, and assist with analysis of neural recordings in MATLAB. The position is well suited to a candidate with prior clinical research exposure who wants to develop deeper technical skills in human neurophysiology.

The selected candidate will:

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate human subjects research studies in DBS and intracranial electrophysiology, including recruitment, scheduling, and informed consent.

• Support intraoperative and outpatient neurophysiology data collection, including equipment setup, monitoring, and secure data transfer.

• Prepare and maintain IRB submissions, amendments, continuing reviews, and regulatory documentation in audit-ready condition.

• Perform data analysis tasks in MATLAB under PI direction, including quality control, established analysis pipelines, and figure preparation.

• Maintain study source documents and REDCap data, and respond to queries from sponsors, monitors, and collaborators.

• Coordinate with neurosurgery, neurology, and OR scheduling teams to integrate research activities with clinical care.

• Contribute to scientific manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and grant materials. Collaborate with and support Principal Investigator (PI) and lab members with laboratory and research functions

• Utilize a variety of laboratory techniques required for research projects

• Perform experiments and tabulate and analyze research

• Maintenance of a laboratory inventory. Ordering and restocking reagents for the laboratory.

• Molecular cloning

• Molecular and histological analysis of mouse tissues, including genomic DNA isolation, PCR, RNA isolation, gene expression analysis by qPCR and NGS sequencing, protein localization or quantification by immunofluorescence analysis, Western blotting, or ELISA assay.

• In vitro knockdown experiments using siRNA followed by quantitative analysis of gene expression.