Thermo fisher scientific
Immunology Research Scientist
Overview
As part of the Immunology Research Team, the individual will contribute to the assessment of novel therapeutic approaches to target autoimmunity and inflammation, independently designing, performing, and validating key in vitro cell-based functional assays.
About Thermo fisher scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by providing analytical instruments, equipment, software, and services for research, analysis, discovery, and diagnosis.
Requirements & Eligibility
- Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years)
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check including a drug screening
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and performing experiments to support scientific activities and project goals.
- Separation of human PBMC from whole blood, as well as the isolation of primary human leukocyte populations for downstream assays.
- Isolation of immune cells from murine organs (spleen, etc).
- Maintain cell lines and primary cell cultures.
- Perform immunological assays including lymphocyte proliferation, activation, cytokine secretion, and differentiation.
- Perform basic molecular biology assays including mRNA isolation, Taqman qPCR, NanoString.
- Flow cytometric analysis of immune cell subsets and analysis of data.
- Perform immunoassays (MSD, ELISA, etc) for analysis of soluble proteins in cell supernatants/murine plasma.
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