Research Assistant, COM, Department of Neurology

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Job Overview

As one of the oldest medical schools in the country, the UC college of Medicine has a reputation for training best in class health care professionals and developing cutting edge procedures and research that improves the health and clinical care of patients. In partnership with the UC Health academic healthcare system and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine’s faculty are transforming the world of medicine every day.

The Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine is recruiting for a full time Research Assistant in the Hyacinth Lab. We are seeking a highly organized and reliable individual to manage a large mouse colony in a dynamically, interactive laboratory.

Essential Functions

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• Contribute to collective team effort and willing to perform tasks, outside of job description, as needed.
• Acquire a basic understanding of on-going projects and mouse strains associated with each study.
• Colony management (included but not limited to):
  • Handling and restraining of murine models
  • General husbandry, tissue collection and weaning (sex determination)
  • PCR reactions, gel electrophoresis, hemoglobin electrophoresis
  • Injections: retroorbital, subcutaneous, and intraperitoneal 
  • Blood collection: submandibular (cheek) and retroorbital (under anesthesia)
  • Euthanasia and specimen processing (necropsy and tissue harvesting)
  • Record keeping: entering updates in mouse colony database (SoftMouse), and contribution to generating colony census reports 
• May cross train with molecular biology techniques:
  • Tissue and/or organ harvesting and preparation into a single cell suspension  
  • Flow cytometry 
  • Complete Blood Count (CBC)
  • General cell culture techniques
  • Immunohistochemistry
• May assist with training onboarding staff, visitors, and students in murine handling techniques.
• Participate in experimental planning and goal setting regarding murine projects.  
• Acts as liaison between UC’s Veterinary staff and laboratory personnel.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Five (5) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized training can be used in lieu of education requirement.

Required Experience

Additional related work experience may be required depending on field or discipline.

Additional Qualifications Considered

• Detail-oriented, highly organized, and reliable individual, and having excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with bone marrow transplantation is ideal.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Sitting - Continuously
• Repetitive hand motion (such as typing) - Often
• Hearing, listening - Often
• Talking - Often
• Standing - Often
• Walking - Often
• Bending - Often
• Stooping - Often
• Lifting - up to 20 pounds - Often
• Kneeling, squatting - Seldom
• Noise: There is sufficient noise to cause you to shout in order to be heard above the noise level.
• Hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts of machinery or tools used to perform work, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, or exposure to chemicals.
• Atmospheric Conditions: Conditions that affect the respiratory system, such as fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.

Compensation and Benefits

UC offers a wide array of complementary and affordable benefit options, to meet the financial, educational, health, and wellness needs of you and your family. Eligibility varies by position and FTE.

• Competitive salary