Highlights
The successful candidate must be self-motivated and detail-oriented, exhibit excellent organizational and communication skills, demonstrate the ability to manage multiple priorities and work under tight timelines, thrive with a high degree of responsibility, and a proficient team-player. The successful candidate needs to be able to manage more than one project at any given time, to work successfully in a cross-functional and highly collaborative team environment, and to communicate clearly to a variety of audiences in both speech and writing.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Foster City, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $50–$55 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Position: Pathobiology Specialist
Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 18 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: Monday - Friday 09:00 - 05:00
Pay Rate:$50.00-$55.00/Hr
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biotech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Job Description:
- We are seeking a highly motivated, interactive, and creative individual to support drug discovery and development within Research.
- The successful candidate will be part of the Pathobiology Group which provides laboratory support throughout Client .
- He/she will work closely with internal Client research groups as well as external collaborators to identify and validate novel drug targets in the areas of oncology, fibrosis, virology, and inflammation.
- Tissue-based endpoints will be used to investigate the efficacy and method of action and potential therapeutic targets.
- The successful candidate must be self-motivated and detail-oriented, exhibit excellent organizational and communication skills, demonstrate the ability to manage multiple priorities and work under tight timelines, thrive with a high degree of responsibility, and a proficient team-player.
- Specific duties will include optimization and/or validation of antibody reagents for IHC and CISH.
- He/she will have extensive experience in IHC, including method development, and will help with identification and implementation of process improvements in IHC and other histological techniques.
- He/she will work closely with internal Client research groups as well as external collaborators to identify and validate novel drug targets in the areas of oncology, fibrosis, virology, and inflammation.
- He/she will be responsible for development of tissue-based assays and will have a background in biology or a related discipline and laboratory experience in human and animal tissue preparation and image scanning.
- Experience with multiplex IHC assays is a plus, but not necessary.
- Development of infrastructure, tissue collections, technology and novel methodology will be implemented as needed through a combination of in-house efforts and the use of relevant CROs or other external expertise.
- The successful candidate must be able to independently plan, execute, and troubleshoot decisional experiments that support the initiation and/or advancement of drug candidate projects.
- The candidate will work cross-functionally within the organization to achieve goals, present research findings and recommendations to senior staff, and identify new technologies that may increase throughput or enhance our understanding of disease mechanisms.
Education Level
- Applicants should have a BS degree and 8+ years of relevant experience or an MS degree with 6+ years of experience.
Experience
- The candidate's work history should demonstrate the direct participation in drug discovery and target identification/validation in oncology, fibrosis, inflammation, and virology research by IHC and other histological techniques.
- Necessary technical skills include IHC method-development protocols, tissue handling, and organized data entry. Proficiency with Microsoft Office is required.
- Applicants should be able to troubleshoot independently, use both strategic and tactical thinking effectively, and show curiosity-driven engagement in scientific problems.
- The successful candidate needs to be able to manage more than one project at any given time, to work successfully in a cross-functional and highly collaborative team environment, and to communicate clearly to a variety of audiences in both speech and writing.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
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