Manager, Cell and Tissue Analysis Core

Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) is seeking a Manager for the Cell and Tissue Analysis Core a leadership role at the heart of our collaborative cutting-edge research this role you will oversee the daily functions of our Core laboratory and related services ensuring researchers have the expertise and tools they need to answer complex biological questions across basic translational and clinical science.

What makes this opportunity exciting is the balance of hands-on science and strategic leadership. You will manage operations and drive innovation with opportunities to explore new and creative approaches to data acquisition as well as cutting-edge methods for machine and data validation.

The Cell and Tissue Analysis Core is home to a broad and specialized set of instrumentation including:

• Multiple analytic and sorting flow cytometers including three spectral cell analyzers and a BD S8 Spectral Cell Sorter
• A suite of standard transmission and fluorescence microscopes
• A scanning confocal microscope
• An automated highly multiplexed plate-reading spinning disk confocal (ImageXpress confocal )
• A fully equipped histology laboratory for staining and analysis of FFPE and frozen tissue sections

This is an opportunity to engage with advanced technologies partner with world-class scientists and contribute directly to discoveries that impact human health. Candidates who thrive at the intersection of technology collaboration and innovation will find this role challenging and rewarding.

Among other duties the Manager Cell and Tissue Analysis Core is responsible for:

• Supervising the daily maintenance calibration and operation of core instrumentation by core staff and/or laboratory personnel
• Implementing a comprehensive training program for each instrument that includes appropriate considerations to biological and chemical safety
• Overseeing the scheduled use preventative maintenance and repair of core instrumentation.
• Acting as liaison with investigators who would like to utilize the labs technology consulting in experimental design to address questions with available technology. This includes coordinating with biostatistics and bioinformatics groups as needed for experimental design and analysis
• Providing supervision and instruction to technicians and other lab personnel to ensure adequate stocking evaluation and ordering of equipment and reagents
• Regularly interfacing with other shared resource groups (e.g. Genomics and Bioinformatics/Biostatistics) to ensure integration of BRI Core functions in specialized applications such as spatial transcriptomics
• Engaging with representatives from relevant manufacturers and suppliers
• Maintaining and disseminating knowledge of growth in new technologies
• Engaging with the local and regional Core manager community
• Building/maintaining core lab budgets and cost structures and billing for core lab use
• Serving on intuitional committees relevant to the core function such as the general safety committee or institutional biosafety committee
  
  

The Manager Cell and Tissue Analysis Core will report directly to a supervising Principal Investigator.

This position requires a Bachelors degree or higher and at least 5 years of relevant experience with core instrumentation. Supervisory experience required may substitute post-baccalaureate education for equivalent experience.

Annual salary range is $88760 to $156010. Final placement within this range will depend on education experience and qualifications.

• Medical dental vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts: health care dependent care commuter
• Short and long-term disability
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan with matching funds after one year of employment
• PTO: 13 holidays three weeks of vacation and two weeks of sick leave per year
• Employee assistance program
• Educational assistance program
• Subsidized ORCA pass
• Wellness benefits
• Voluntary benefits

Benaroya Research Institute (BRI)has a bold mission: to advance the science to predict prevent reverse and cureimmune system diseases fromautoimmune diseasetocancertoasthmaandallergies. We create detailed pictures of the immune system in health and disease aiming to understand how disorders start and how to rebalance the immune system back to health. Equipped with innovative tools and robustbiorepositories our team chips away at the biggest mysteries behind these conditions to work toward our vision of a healthy immune system for is a nonprofit research institute based in Seattle and affiliated with Virginia Mason Franciscan collaborate with clinicians and patients to accelerate the path from innovative lab discoveries to life-changing patient care.

At BRI each individual is valued as an important contributor to our vision and mission. Consider making a difference by joining our team. Because together we arepowering possibility.

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