"Research Technician B"

About Us

The Cell Biology Department is seeking a Research Technician B to assist with research projects to help develop better methods to produce culture red blood cells from diagnostic and transfusion support.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

The Lab employs gnotobiotic mouse models to study the role of the microbiota in intestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, food allergy and cancer. It is essential that the technician has skills and experience in working with germfree mice, including aseptic techniques for mouse handling, maintenance, treatments, import and export of germfree mice from the gnotobiotic facility isolators and monitoring microbiologic status of the mice.

The technician will be responsible for culturing self-renewing erythroblasts and differentiate them into cultured red blood cells that will eventually be used for diagnostics and transfusion support.

The person will:

• Perform a moderate number of simple or moderate technical procedures;
• Require occasional guidance;
• Occasionally be responsible for ordering routine supplies;
• Rarely modify technical procedures;
• Rarely train other lab members;
• Rarely guide other lab members;
• A simple / limited understanding of scientific literature and the research goals and rationale is required;
• Occasionally analyze data;
• Rarely interpret data;
• Rarely make written contributions to papers and grant proposals.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required to have at least a Bachelor's Degree in a related science or equivalent skills and related experience, and zero to two years of related experience.

Preferred: Previous experience growing erythroid cell lines and previous training in erythropoiesis.

Hiring Rate

$26.80

Post Probationary Rate

$27.33

Job Rate

$28.18

About Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Founded in 1955, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation’s premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigation. A full-time faculty of some 2,000 conducts research, teaches, and delivers health care in every major biomedical specialty. The college has some 730 medical students, 193 Ph.D. students, 106 MD/Ph.D. students and 275 postdoctoral fellows.Einstein’s major strength, in addition to training physicians and scientists, is its science. During fiscal year 2015, the faculty’s consistently high level of scientific achievement resulted in the awarding of more than $150 million in peer-reviewed grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Einstein is part of Montefiore Medicine Academic Health System, an integrated academic delivery system comprising seven campuses, including 8 hospitals, a multi-county ambulatory network, a new state-of-the art “hospital without beds”, a skilled nursing facility, school of nursing, home health agency, and the state’s first freestanding emergency department. As the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore is a premier academic health system, e...mploying Einstein’s clinical faculty and training Einstein’s medical students, over 1,300 residents, 420 allied health students, and 1,600 nursing students annually.The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. Einstein seeks candidates whose skills, and personal and professional experience, have prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence, and the communities we serve.