Job Description

Join Dr. Tyler M. Pierson and their research group as a Research Lab Assistant I in the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute!

The Pierson Laboratory is committed to understanding the pathological mechanisms involved in rare and undiagnosed pediatric neurogenetic disorders. The research goal of the Pierson Laboratory is to extend these diagnostic elements by using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to understand the disease mechanisms associated with these rare pediatric neurogenetic disorders and to explore stem cell-based therapies for the delivery of therapeutic drugs, small molecules and proteins. The Pierson Lab is also involved in confirming neurogenetic diagnoses in known, but rare, neurogenetic disorders, as well as developing research to link rare presentations of neurogenetic disorders with new genes and causes. To learn more, please visit: Pierson Research Lab | Cedars-Sinai

Are you ready to be a part of breakthrough research?

The incumbent performs lab cleaning and maintenance duties including washing and sterilizing glassware, operates autoclaves and other specialized equipment, using special detergents or other cleaning agents. Assists in ordering and maintenance of cleaning supplies inventory. Performs other lab cleaning and maintenance as required. May participate in research studies and perform basic lab techniques under guidance of the PI.

Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs sterilization of glassware.
• Assists in maintaining laboratory and laboratory equipment record keeping.
• May assist with the feeding and maintenance of lab vivarium activities.
• May perform basic administrative duties in laboratory or in accordance with research project.

Qualifications

Education:

• High School diploma or GED is required.

Experience and Skills:

• No experience is required.
• Ability to understand and perform a variety of routine cleaning and maintenance procedures to support the activity of one or more research labs.
• Ability to use specialized equipment and materials.
• Ability to follow safety standards and procedures.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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