Infectious Disease Scientist – II

Job Description

Job Summary:

• The Client group is seeking applicants for a position in the HIV Biomarkers area.
• The job will entail several facets of HIV biomarker work.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receipt, logging, and processing of patient blood samples into PBMCs.
• Cell isolations from HIV+ human tissue biopsies.
• Running of biomarker assays on the above samples (including pPCR, standard and ultra-sensitive ELISAs, and potentially flow cytometry).
• Assisting with development, validation, and running of Client biomarker assays.
• Testing of test compounds in primary cell HIV assays.
• The job is fast-paced and will be very much hands-on in the laboratory.
• Handling of HIV+ materials (lab strains as well as patient-derived samples) is a job requirement.
• Great organizational skills, communication, time management, and the ability to learn to operate state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and automation are also required.

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will have at least a bachelor’s degree in a life science or bioengineering and 2 years of hands-on laboratory experience and able to execute experiments independently after initial training from a more experienced lab member.
• Experience with cell culture, blood processing, and immunoassays is strongly preferred.
• Other desired experience includes primary cell culture and flow cytometry.