Research Technician

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary:

The Kim lab in the UNC McAllister Heart Institute is seeking a Research Technician. The lab uses molecular, genetic, and cellular techniques to examine the contribution of endothelial cell metabolism in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent college graduate to gain research experience before they start a graduate program.

Check out the lab website: https://www.boakimlab.com/

Responsibilities:

• The Research Technician will assist with organizing and maintaining the lab. (e.g. preparation of lab stock solutions, autoclave, lab maintenance, and inventorying/ordering chemicals, samples, and supplies)
• The Research Technician will assist the PI and lab members with their experiments and also run experiments independently as they get trained. The techniques likely to be used include human endothelial cell culture, dissection of mouse tissues including blood vessel, immunocytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, qPCR, western blot, and microscopic imaging.
• The Research Technician will assist with managing the mouse colony (eg.. genotyping)

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Management Preferences:

• Course work in Biology, Biochemistry, or related field
• Laboratory experience with molecular biology techniques and/or mouse work

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities:

Not Applicable.