Senior Research Associate Job Description
Senior research associate
provides consultative and technical assistance and training to college stakeholders regarding research design, statistical tools, analytical methods and software, and interpretation of research findings.
Senior Research Associate Duties & Responsibilities
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Routinely perform molecular biology (metabolic, ELISA, western, histology, immunofluorescence) assays to evaluate cell distribution and cell phenotype in recellularized scaffolds
Competent in HPLC and Dissolution analytical techniques
Preparation of metabolomics, lipidomics, and proteomics samples from tissues, cells, and biofluids
Develop and optimize methods for sample preparation
Maintain and care of GCs, HPLCs, mass spectrometers and other bioanalytical instrumentation
Maintain core lab equipment and inventory of reagents
Train users to independently operate flow cytometers and analyze flow cytometry or cell sorting data
Perform basic laboratory techniques including cell culture and cell-based assays
Prepare educational materials for users
Prepare human and non-human organs, tissues, and cells for experimentation
Senior Research Associate Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Senior Research Associate
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCRA, AALAS, CPA, CCRP, CCRC, GCP, ACRP, ASR, CPR, ASCP
Education for Senior Research Associate
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Employers hiring for the senior research associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Doctoral Degree in Education, Social Science, Design, Writing, Communication, Conducting, Science, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Geographic Information Systems
Skills for Senior Research Associate
Desired skills for senior research associate include:
HPLC
ELISA
Specialized area of research
Statistical software
Excel
-Ability to implement research projects
Biochemistry
Developing hypotheses
Flow cytometry analysis software
Immunology
Desired experience for senior research associate includes:
Knowledge dissemination and fundraising activities through writing research publications and grants
Administrative support to the research projects such as ethics approvals and periodic reporting to granting agencies
A thorough understanding of travel behavior
An understanding and knowledge of advanced mathematical and statistical tools and their use for modeling travel behavior
An understanding of computer programming, and computer programming experience
An advanced understanding and knowledge of travel demand forecasting tools and techniques
Senior Research Associate Examples
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Senior Research Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of senior research associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior research associate
- In conjunction with tech lead/Manager, set clear objectives, plan and gain support to execute tasks remaining focused on project goals and meeting deadlines
- Prepare and publish original research, research syntheses, policy briefs, and other products as needed
- Independently carry out and design highly sophisticated and independent experiments and research projects
- Mentor and train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in developing their research projects
- Report to the Executive Director and work in partnership with the Faculty Director to create key research products
- Maintain an accurate and detailed laboratory notebook
- Become adept at in-depth analysis of your industry and companies
- Demonstrate thought leadership and make significant contributions to our highly differentiated written product and forward-looking financial analysis
- Develop relationships with institutional clients, sales, trading interact with senior management of companies in your industry
- Become thoroughly familiar with the USAARL Acoustics Branch Task Area A1 projects, including description, progress, and milestones
Qualifications for senior research associate
- Minimum 5 years experience in bioanalytical analysis
- Incredible attention to detail, with a focus on generating the highest quality data
- Competence in standard laboratory procedures, including sterile cell culture
- Previous experience with BD FACS Arias and other BD analytical flow cytometers
- Competence in flow cytometry analysis and sorting software packages, including FACS Diva and FlowJo
- Clear verbal and written communication with excellent record keeping
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Senior Research Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a senior research associate. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior research associate
- Responsible for all aspects of registry management as prescribed in the project plans
- Prepare samples from tissues, cells, and biofluids including blood, CSF and urine
- Optimize and develop new sample preparation methods
- Maintain and troubleshoot instruments including HPLCs, mass spectrometers and other bioanalytical equipment
- Yeast strain construction (using genome modification and crossing strategies)
- Molecular biology techniques (plasmid construction, PCR, nucleic acid preparation)
- Growth and phenotypic characterization of yeast strains
- Generating presentations/reports to present research updates
- Maintain orderly lab notebook
- Design, test, and implement multi-color (> 10 parameter) flow cytometric assays
Qualifications for senior research associate
- 4+ years of clinical research monitoring experience
- 3+ years of Clinical Research (CRA) and/or Clinical Research Management experience with demonstrated experience in multi-national and/or multi-site clinical studies
- The ongoing research projects focusing on (I) autoimmune disorders including inflammatory bowel disease and SLE-like syndromes, (II) disoerders of the primiarily adaptive immune system ((severe) combined immunodeficiencies (S)CIDs) and (III) disorders of the myeloid lineage through research design and supervision of the scientific staff
- A self-motivator with the ability to handle multiple projects at once
- DNA and RNA extraction from cells
- Familiarity with basic statistics and genomic data analysis tools
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Senior Research Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior research associate. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior research associate
- Purchase lab supplies and equipment
- Researches impact analysis and action
- Guides and coordinates the development of data for special management, policy studies and/or research activities
- Analyzes developments in the industry
- Designs, manages, coordinates and conducts research activities and statistical studies
- Leads and/or participates on project teams in special studies resulting in recommending solutions or alternatives
- Trains staff in the use of departmental data processing tools
- Creates, maintains and approves databases utilizing various computer programming languages or user-oriented software, such as R, MATLAB, Stata, and Python
- Utilizes statistical methods to analyze management problems and/or policy implications
- Performs and/or supervises independent studies, internet and library searches on relevant subjects
Qualifications for senior research associate
- 2+ years as a clinical research monitor
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in life science, engineering, or biomedical science
- Cell and tissue assay development experience
- Experience conducting independent research projects and experiments
- You must have previous clinical research monitoring experience (including pre-study, initiation, routine monitoring and closeout visits)
- In lieu of the above requirements, candidates with > five (5) years supervisory experience in a health care setting and three (3) years clinical research experience in the pharmaceutical or CRO industries (including monitoring) will be considered
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior research associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior research associate
- Develop and validate bioanalytical methods for immunogenicity assessment under supervision
- Stay compliant with applicable regulations
- Plan, perform and analyze experiments in Drosophila neurogenetics under the scientific guidance of the PI
- Conduct research related to ongoing research collaborations entered into by the PI with colleagues studying Drosophila and other insects
- Generate regularly scheduled formal reports on the progress of such research
- Generate circadian time series data, which regularly requires successive 14-16 hour workdays performing micro-dissections of Drosophila tissues
- Prepare manuscripts, grants, and progress reports
- Train undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows in laboratory techniques required to achieve the scientific aims of the lab
- Maintain and archive biological samples, reagents, data
- Maintain consumable inventory
Qualifications for senior research associate
- Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting HPLCs and mass spectrometers
- Experience in sample preparation for proteomics
- Experience in enrichment of PTMs such as phosphorylation and glycosylation valued but not required
- Experience with yeast-specific techniques including strain construction, transformation, and tetrad dissection
- Familiarity with economic data, inter-relation between economic variables
- Motivated, self-starter with a strong work ethic and the ability to work in team settings
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Senior Research Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior research associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior research associate
- Trouble shoot issues and coordinate the repair of equipment/tools as needed
- Teaching Support for courses that use the Lab
- Supporting research by managing and delivering data resources, investigating sources of new data that could facilitate new research
- Providing support for extra-curricular activities
- Managing and training a team of Lab Assistants to provide support for Rotman Faculty
- Leading development and maintenance of our custom Lab products (RIT and RPM) including new case development
- Leading marketing for our Lab products, in particular RIT and RPM, by promoting these products at our Users' Workshop, conferences, site visits
- Developing and maintaining innovative new Lab products which are commercially viable and increase the Lab's revenue flow
- Corporate outreach including revenue generating corporate events, speaker series, fund-raising for Lab events such as competitions
- Lead a group of employees dedicated to crops seeds production activities
Qualifications for senior research associate
- Proven ability to successfully execute and correctly intepret complex experiments
- Hands-on experience with NGS workflows in an industrial setting preferred
- Hands-on experience in primary analysis of NGS data strongly preferred
- Good understanding of the underlying technical principles of NGS chemistries and workflows, instrument platfoms and data analysis preferred
- Knowledge of and hands-on experience with Design of Experiments (DOE) approaches advanced statistical analysis methodologies a plus
- Experience working in a wet lab required