Senior Research Associate

Job Title: Senior Research Associate

Location: Lexington, MA 02421

Duration: 12 Months (Possibility of extension depending upon business requirements and performance)

 

Top skills per manager:

• Experience dosing mouse/rat
• Experience putting together a protocol and conducting an in vivo study beginning to end (from protocol to plotting the data)
• Works as a team player and has attention to detail

 

Job Description:

About the Department

• Our East Coast Global Development Hub brings together the best minds in life science innovation with facilities in Lexington, MA.
• We support programs from early research through late-stage clinical development.
• We are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple innovative modalities and therapeutic areas.
• Our East Coast Global Development Hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.
• We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us.
• We're changing lives for a living. Are you ready to make a difference?

 

The Position:

• Provide complex technical support for research activities in multiple in vivo projects focused on obesity and cardiometabolic therapeutic areas.
• This position will be responsible for in vivo experimental planning, execution, & analyses with limited supervisor support.

 

Essential Functions:

• Hands-on in vivo experimental efforts
• Designs and conducts in vivo research studies
• Independently leads the development and implementation of assays to support research projects
• Interpret and properly document experimental data
• Ensures data integrity and documentation through maintenance of laboratory notebooks and ensuring data and results are entered into the electronic notebook in a timely manner
• Point of contact person for specific in vivo platform and methodologies.
• Collaborative Teamwork and develop synergy with technical and scientific experts within the team.
• Works in a team-focused environment to ensure progress of global research projects
• Works with team to ensure better practice sharing and implementation within the lab
• Supports business goals, shares learnings, knowledge and skills, and cross-functional teamwork
• Be a team player and regularly provides assistance to other technical staff
• Scientific input & guidance
• Independently executes experiments and performs data analyses of moderate complexity
• Correctly interprets data and make recommendations for next steps
• Responsible for developing, optimizing & drafting protocols for methods of moderate complexity with limited input from supervisor
• Contributes to formal study reports & study protocol drafting & review
• Supports development and management of research protocols in support of multiple drug discovery efforts
• Presents findings at the scientist, department, and site-level
• Manages personal experimental timelines
• Will require weekend tasks which are a shared and divided responsibility among the team

 

Physical Requirements:

• 0-10% overnight travel required. Ability to lift 50lbs.

 

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma with 10+ years' experience required.
• With a Vocational Degree or Associate's degree, 6+ years' relevant experience required.
• With a Bachelor's degree, 4+ years' relevant experience required.
• A Master's Degree with no industry or post-graduate experience can be considered.

 

Relevant Experience includes:

• Experience with In vivo rodent handling, dosing via various routes of administration (SC, PO, IP, IV etc.), in-life blood collections and necropsy is required.
• Collecting data and accurately maintaining laboratory notebooks required.
• Track record of organizing and performing experiments of moderate complexity and per-forming at a moderate level of independence.
• Computer proficiency and the ability and desire to learn new software programs.
• Experience with metabolic cage systems including BIODAQ and Sable Cage systems is highly desirable.
• Rodent surgical experience is desirable.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 62.69/hr.