Scientist in Irvine, CA

PhD will be overqualified

• No Animal handling
• Academic exp will work
• BS or MS & 3-5 years biochemistry or immunology lab experience
• Exp in biochemistry in biochemistry or Bioanalytical or immunology background
• Masters degree with 1 yr exp will work
• Bachelor’s with 3 yrs exp needed
• In vitro work

Top skills

• Generating titrations/dilutions,
• Flow cytometry background
• Pipetting
• Cell isolation
• Cell culture
• Sterile technique
• Cell based assay
• Ligand binding assay (ELISA, Luminex, MSD and gyros) (nice to have)
• In vitro cell assays

Nice to have

• Flow cytometry

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:

• BS or MS & 3-5 years biochemistry or immunology lab experience
• Primary cell isolation and culture, sterile technique, pipetting samples, generating titrations/dilutions, dealing with cells, making buffers
• ELISA, or other ligand binding assay basics
• In vitro cell assays
• Enthusiastic, organized

Job Description

• Isolation & characterization of human blood cells and in vitro cell assays-
• Contractor will request donor samples, isolate cells from human or monkey peripheral blood, set up cultures with isolated cells, perform cell stimulation or differentiation by test compounds, harvest cells and supernatants, prepare these samples for further analysis; run ELISA, Luminex or MSD tests to study immunosafety of compounds; analyze and present the data generated by these experiments.

What is a nice to have (but not required) skill, experience, education, or certification?

• Luminex, MSD or Gyros
• Flow cytometry
• Assay development experience

In what type of environment would this individual be working (i.e.: Team; Individual; type of office, etc.) ?

• 100 % Lab, benchwork, team and individual work

Daily Work Schedule Expectations

• M-F regular business hours

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