Job Information
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Technician B in New York, New York
- Job Type: Support Staff - Union
- Bargaining Unit: SSA
- Regular/Temporary: Temporary
- End Date if Temporary: August 2025
- Hours Per Week: 35
- Building: Hammer Health Sciences Building
- Salary Range: $53.394.17-$53.394.17
Position Summary
The department is seeking a motivated individual to assist/work on Stem Cell Regenerative Medicine to treat inherited dystrophies leading to blindness. diseases include retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, and Stargardt disease. The Technician B would be responsible for aiding the PI in performing administrative and writing-based tasks to support this research. They would also be responsible for helping laboratory members with manuscript editing and IRB/IACUC management, phenotype patients with known DNA mutations and testing the efficacy of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy.
Responsibilities
- Patient specific stem cell disease modeling.
- Carry out laboratory management duties including the ordering of laboratory equipment, reagents, chemicals, animals and general supplies.
- Maintain equipment for histology, immunohistochemistry, light and fluorescent microscopy.
- Manage mouse colonies and record keeping.
- Under the supervision of the PI, assist with budgets and manage financial resources of the laboratory.
- Administrative duties related to manuscripts/grant application.
- Assist with preparing manuscripts/grant applications
- Compose clinical research reports
- Teach and train laboratory technicians and students.
- Any other duties related to research project assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology or physics or related science or equivalent in education, training and experience
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Must be able to work effectively with minimal supervision
- Computer skills required
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience working in a research laboratory setting desirable
- Experience in grant application, project conducting, and manuscript preparation for paper submission
- Broad knowledge and excellent skills in a wide-variety of molecular biology methods from very fundamental to advanced technologies, including tissue culture (cell line, primary cell, stem cell), mouse handling, mouse model creating (transgene, knock-in, knock-out), gene therapy/editing techniques (CRISPR, TALEN, Zinc finger) in vitro and in vivo, etc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
Minimum Salary: 31200.00 Maximum Salary: 31200.00 Salary Unit: Yearly