Research Associate Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmacology, biology, neuroscience, molecular biology, or a related field with 3+ years of industry experience, or a master’s degree with 1+ year of industry experience.
• Hands-on experience running in vivo rodent studies, including dosing, monitoring, blood collection, tissue harvest, and necropsy.
• Experience dosing rodents by intravenous, retro-orbital, or comparable routes.
• Experience processing animal tissues and biological samples for molecular, biochemical, or pharmacodynamic endpoints.
• Experience running molecular and biochemical assays such as qPCR/ddPCR, RT-qPCR, Western blot, Simple Western/Jess, ELISA, or RNAscope.
• Experience managing samples and timelines across more than one study at a time.

Nice To Haves

• Flow cytometry experience.
• Experience supporting IND-enabling studies.

Responsibilities

• Run in vivo pharmacology studies in rodents, including dosing, monitoring, clinical observations, blood collection, tissue harvest, and necropsy.
• Set up and schedule studies and coordinate between the laboratory and animal facility.
• Process tissues and biological samples and isolate DNA, RNA, and protein for molecular, biochemical, and pharmacodynamic analysis.
• Run assays such as qPCR/ddPCR, RT-qPCR, Western blot, Simple Western/Jess, ELISA, or RNAscope.
• Analyze, interpret, and graph study and assay data in GraphPad Prism and other analysis tools.
• Present findings, study progress, and data summaries to project teams and cross-functional collaborators.
• Keep study records, sample inventories, and protocols accurate and current.

Benefits

• Bonus eligibility for every employee.
• New-hire equity.
• The company pays about 90% of medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• The company funds the full deductible on its HSA plan.
• 12 weeks of parental leave at full pay.
• Paid parking or transit.
• 401(k) match.
• Discretionary time off.