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Associate Basic Scientist - The Center for Asthma Research
Nashville, TN
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 hours ago
Inventory ManagementPatient CareCell CultureResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- The Center for Asthma Research is seeking an exceptional and motivated Scientific Laboratory Director to join our dynamic clinical-translational research team dedicated to advancing discoveries in maternal-child health and asthma prevention.
- This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in cutting-edge research aimed at improving lives and shaping the future of asthma prevention and treatment.
- The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational and leadership skills, a passion for advancing scientific knowledge, and the ability to foster productive relationships with collaborators across the United States and with international collaborators.
Responsibilities
- Scientific Advancement: Support the Center's mission to advance its scientific agenda by contributing to innovative research projects and fostering a culture of inquiry and discovery.
- Collaboration: This position will be the professional face of our wet laboratory and requires building and maintaining effective partnerships with collaborators across the U.S., facilitating data sharing, research alignment, and communication between multidisciplinary teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with or ability to develop assays for RSV serology is preferred.
- Cell Culture: Work with human airway epithelial cells (required experience) and PBMCs to advance translational research goals.
- Experience with in vitro infection of airway epithelial cells with respiratory syncytial virus is preferred.
Skills
- Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges. -
Compensation
- Organization and Reporting: Maintain accurate lab records, coordinate inventory management, complete annual compliance and training reporting, perform annual staff assessments of research assistant(s), develop lab-focused grant budgets and prepare reports for regulatory and scientific purposes.
Benefits
- Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated.
- Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
- Our Academic Enterprise is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers.
- World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.
Company info
- Work with human airway epithelial cells (required experience) and PBMCs to advance translational research goals.
- It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday.
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