Temporary Research Assistant

Rutgers University • Newark, NJ

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About The Position

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Temporary Research Assistant in the Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience within New Jersey Medical School ( NJMS ). Under supervision, the Temporary Research Assistant performs and assists with laboratory services and procedures in support of research activities of the laboratory. Performs other related laboratory duties as required. New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research. Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers. Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates. Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with rodent experiments such as genotyping, maintaining mouse and rat colonies, and immunohistochemical analysis on rodent tissue, is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain mouse and rat colony (for ex, genotyping, breeding, weaning)
• Perform experiments (for ex, fiberoptic spectroscopic analysis, rodents behavioral tests, perfusion, rodents brain sectioning and immunohistochemistry)
• Assists in conducting a continuous program of research and development regarding the analytical and instrumentation functions of the laboratory, constantly evaluating existing procedures, revising where necessary, proposing new procedures where required and evaluating suggestions and changes as proposed, in order to keep the methodology and procedures current
• Install and maintain laboratory computers and equipment in good working order
• Submits purchase recommendations to his/her supervisor of analytical and physiological equipment and laboratory operating supplies

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: No Education Listed