Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow - PhD

Overview

Seattle Children’s are seeking an enthusiastic and collaborative postdoctoral fellow to join our Translational Immunology Group.  The successful candidate will play a key role in characterizing functionality of immune cells in the context of tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria and positive strand RNA viruses e.g., SARS-CoV-2.  Previous experience in human immunology and cellular immunoassays, including multiparametric flow cytometry, is required.  Excellent organizational and communication skills are essential.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assessment of immunological endpoints in vaccine clinical trials including assay development and validation.

• Contribute to writing clinical study reports, statistical analysis plans and grant applications.

• Perform specimen processing and shipping for domestic and international sites.

• Work closely under supervision to implement research projects that further the understanding and development of effective vaccines.

• Committed participation as a team member to support experimental design, immunoassay development and methodology following scientific literature review, quality standards and discussion with peers, as required.

• Responsible for following Standard Operating Procedures and development/optimization/ qualification/validation reports for immunoassays.

• Responsible for performing assay development, optimizations, and validations as a primary lead and/or in collaboration with others.

• Participate in laboratory audits to ensure GCLP-like compliance and assist with clinical training activities.

• Records procedures, outcomes and observations in lab notebook following established guidelines.

• Utilize established mathematical and scientific techniques to compile and critically analyze and interpret data.

• Communicate with research management on a regular basis.

• Prepare manuscripts for publication in peer reviewed journals.

• Presents research at group and internal/external scientific meetings.

• Contributes to the maintenance of the sample repository including sample tracking procedures.

Requirements

Required Education/Experience:
-Doctorate degree (PhD/DVM/MD) in speciality area from an accredited university training program
- Experience using basic research techniques of speciality area

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