The Jackson Laboratory
Associate Research Scientist
Farmington, Connecticut
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About the role
- The position is ideal for a candidate who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced research environment and is motivated to translate mechanistic discoveries into therapeutic strategies.
- Pay Range: $65,018 - $108,857 per year depending upon experience.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and optimize human iPSC culture, differentiation, and genome engineering pipelines.
- Lead development of cellular disease models and therapeutic screening platforms.
- Guide experimental design and execution for drug screening and mechanistic studies.
- Maintain high standards of rigor, reproducibility, and data quality across projects.
Requirements
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a research setting.
- Extensive hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture systems.
- Experience with cardiotoxicity models.
- Computational or statistical experience (R, Python, genomic analyses).
Nice to have
- Core Expertise (Preferred)
Skills
- For more information, please visit www.jax.org .
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Compensation
- $65,018 - $108,857 per year depending upon experience.
Benefits
- Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Company info
- We are a diverse and inclusive research group, aspiring to produce top science and scientists through attentive and progressive mentoring and interdisciplinary teamwork.
- Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease.
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