Immediate opportunity for a Histology Associate (Sr. Associate) to work with a leading biotechnology company focused on the needs of patients.
Position Type: 3 mos. contract (through Dec. 2024); potential to extend
Job Summary:
As a Sr. Associate, you will work in the Pathology Lab in the Translational Safety & Bioanalytical Sciences Department in South San Francisco, CA. The Associate will lead histology workflows to support portfolio related questions on target expression and preclinical model development.
Responsibilities include:
- Leads and manages workflows for histology preparation of specimens, including all documentation in required lab information systems and databases, as well as team communications.
- Creates documentation for sample grossing and embedding with guidance by team members.
- Performs tasks related to fixation and processing of specimens, quality control on all stained slides.
- Requests digital scanning of slides and organizes images in database for review by team members.
- Maintains equipment and performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree (MS) and 0+ years' relevant experience, OR Bachelor's degree (BS) and two (2) or more years' relevant experience
- One (1) or more years’ experience in Histology / Pathology laboratory.
- Hands-on experience of staining techniques and familiarity with reagents.
- Experience in documentation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data generated from tissue-based target expression experiments with a variety of statistical approaches.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Should have basic laboratory experience
- Animal tissue experience or animal anatomy knowledge is not required but is preferred.
