Associate Researcher I - Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease

at  Mount Sinai

Description
An Associate Researcher I position is available immediately in the Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Our research focuses on dementia (Alzheimer’s Disease and frontotemporal dementia.) In each of these projects, our goal is to understand the molecular basis of disease in order to identify novel targets for therapeutic development. The team is comprised of 20 scientific and technical staff.
The Associate Researcher I is a laboratory research position, responsible for independent conduct of routine and standardized experiments. This individual assists in the interpretation of research outcomes, performs assays to support research studies, and assists in the clerical and supply aspects of the laboratory environment.

Responsibilities

• Supports research projects involving tissue culture work (cell lines and induced pluripotent stem cells)
• Conducting and assisting in routine and standardized experiments using techniques specific to the research projects as assigned by the Principal Investigator
• Conducting immunofluorescence experiments using brain slices followed by confocal microscopy imaging and image analysis
• May engage in other research projects as time permits

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in science or related field required
• 1 - 2 years of research/laboratory experience
• 1 year of hands on experience in DNA/RNA extraction, cell culture or other aseptic techniques

Employer Description

• Supports research projects involving tissue culture work (cell lines and induced pluripotent stem cells)
• Conducting and assisting in routine and standardized experiments using techniques specific to the research projects as assigned by the Principal Investigator
• Conducting immunofluorescence experiments using brain slices followed by confocal microscopy imaging and image analysis
• May engage in other research projects as time permit