Job Description:

Research Assistant/Associate

Job Location(s)

US-NY-Old Westbury

Overview

New York Institute of Technology offers 90 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs in more than 50 fields of study, including computer science, data, and cybersecurity; biology and biomedical studies; architecture and design; engineering; health professions and medicine; IT and digital technologies; management; communications and marketing; education and counseling; and energy and sustainability. A nonprofit, independent, private, and nonsectarian institute of higher education, it welcomes more than 9,000 students worldwide. The university has campuses in New York City and Long Island, New York; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as programs around the world.

New York Tech embraces its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, give all qualified students access to opportunity, and support research and scholarship that benefits the larger world. More than 100,000 alumni comprise an engaged network of doers, makers, and innovators prepared change the world, solve 21st-century challenges, and reinvent the future.

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Responsibilities

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, located on Long Island, is requesting applications for a Research Assistant/Associate position in the Department of Biomedical Sciences that is supported by an NIH grant . Applicants must have earned a B.S. or M.S. in physiology or molecular/cellular biology, and have relevant work experience.

Specific Responsibilities:

Assist principal investigator in execution of experiments, data collection and analysis, and maintain experimental records.
• Isolate and maintain cultured cells, conduct cell-based assays, RNA isolation, PCR, plasmid construction, ELISA, immunoblot analysis, immunohistochemistry, histology and image capture using advanced microscopic approaches.


• Manage and work with laboratory animal models.


• Work collaboratively with students and other PIs on the research team.


• Maintain basic laboratories reagents, and equipment and replace or request purchase as necessary.

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. with biomedical research experience.


• Must have one year of post bacc work experience.


• Expertise in molecular or cell biogy is preferred.


• Experience in microscopy and in cell culture and molecular biology techniques.


• Must have excellent organizational abilities with basic computer skills and have excellent communication skills.

Please submit resume and cover letter.

New York Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity