Staff Scientist

Overview

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, WA, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Pacific Northwest and houses the nation’s first and largest Cancer Prevention research program.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Staff Scientist to join the Personalized, Adapted, & Targeted Interventions for Communities to Advance Health Equity in Lung Cancer Screening (PATCHES) research team, led by Principal Investigator Matthew Triplette, MD, MPH in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutch Cancer Center (Fred Hutch). The PATCHES research program activities span epidemiology, implementation science, and clinical care to enhance lung cancer prevention encompassing tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening. A significant focus of the lab is to develop, adapt and test interventions to improve lung cancer prevention in high-risk, under-resourced and vulnerable populations using community-engaged and embedded research practices. The PATCHES lab group is transdisciplinary, including members with both clinical and research expertise. Current active NIH- and Foundation-funded projects include: adapting and piloting a combined lung cancer screening and tobacco cessation program for LGBTQ+ elders, building lung cancer prevention care models for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals using human centered design approaches, a multi-site randomized controlled trial of patient navigation for lung cancer screening in AI/AN tribal settings across Washington state, and a multi-site pre-post intervention trial of a care coordination model for lung cancer screening follow-up.

The PATCHES group also maintains significant collaborative projects with several Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium projects including the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET), the Cancer Screening Research Network (CSRN), the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research (HICOR) and the Institute for Translational Health Science (ITHS).

Responsibilities

Candidates should have an interest in cancer prevention and/or cancer screening and in identifying, testing, and implementing effective interventions in diverse settings and populations. The Staff Scientist will work under the direction of Dr. Matthew Triplette, Associate Professor in the Fred Hutch Division of Public Health Sciences with a co-appointment in the University of Washington Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and Director of both the Lung Cancer Screening and Living Tobacco Free Services programs. Dr. Triplette’s research program uses both clinical trials and observational studies to understanding determinants of successful lung cancer prevention and develop and adapt interventions to unique settings and populations. Studies include both single institution and multi-site Save trials, including local and national clinical trials consortia, as well as observational cohorts. The majority of PATCHES studies center health equity approaches and populations at high-risk for both lung cancer and healthcare disparities. The staff scientist is expected to provide significant leadership for the overall lab group and function relatively independently.

Responsibilities include:

• Grant writing
• Developing and implementing research prot