Research Assistant I RESEARCH NEUROLOGY MB
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Hourly Salary:
$ 20 - 29
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Summary: Provides assistance to the Principal Investigator and Study Team in coordinating research activities that may include conducting a variety of routine experiments with established methodologies data collection and management and other research activities as assigned.Does this position require Patient Care No
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for data collection management manipulation analysis and reporting.
- Study cohort management.
- Outreach communication with subjects conducting mailings follow-up on mailings and obtaining necessary documents.
- Provides assistance on work related to epidemiological studies and other population-based research.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelors Degree Science required.
Experience
New grad with some relevant coursework 0-1 year preferred.
Prior laboratory research experience preferred.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Careful attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize a variety of tasks.
- Computer literacy including database tools.
- Ability to follow directions and exhibit professionalism.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Our Laboratory in the BWH Division of Neurocritical Care is seeking a highly motivated individual to assist with ongoing and future research studies. This laboratory takes a special focus on acute brain injury including but not limited to stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage. This role includes both translational laboratory work and clinical research operations.
The Research Assistant will partner closely with the Principal Investigator and research team to plan and execute experiments and manage study workflows. The laboratory component of this role requires the ability to plan experiments based execute them independently analyze data and communicate results effectively with the research team. The clinical research aspect of this role necessitates screening the ICU for eligible patients obtaining informed consent from patients/family members coordinating blood sample collection/processing and maintaining regulatory compliance across all studies. Prior experience in conducting wet lab assays working with animal models neuroimaging analysis database maintenance and/or statistical analyses is preferred.
The position offers meaningful exposure to translational neurocritical care research opportunities to contribute to manuscripts and conference presentations and collaboration with clinicians researchers and patients/families.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Execute lab experiments independently and manage several projects at once.
- Perform animal surgery.
- Maintain animal colonies.
- Coordinate samples collection processing and laboratory analysis.
- Basic statistical analysis and preparation of results/figures for presentation.
- Communicate with PI to plan experiments and interpret results.
- Participate in weekly lab meeting with monthly presentation of results.
- In-patient recruitment and informed consent for participation in clinical research studies.
- Manage storage and inventory of patient samples as well as storage of patient medical information in research databases including Excel and RedCap.
- Maintain IACUC compliance for animal studies.
- Maintain IRB compliance for clinical studies including management of regulatory documents case report forms and correspondence with study sponsors.
- Data extraction from electronic medical records and neuroimaging analysis.
- Assist with drafting of project and grant applications.
Remote Type
Work Location
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Employee Type
Work Shift
Pay Range
$20.16 - $29.01/HourlyGrade
5EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Competency Framework
At Mass General Brigham our competency framework defines what effective leadership looks like by specifying which behaviors are most critical for successful performance at each job level. The framework is comprised of ten competencies (half People-Focused half Performance-Focused) and are defined by observable and measurable skills and behaviors that contribute to workplace effectiveness and career success. These competencies are used to evaluate performance make hiring decisions identify development needs mobilize employees across our system and establish a strong talent pipeline.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Spss
- Data Collection
- DNA Isolation
- Stata
- Biochemistry
- Qualitative Research Interviewing
- Research Experience
- Statistical Software
- Molecular Biology
- Research Laboratory Experience
- Western Blot
About Company
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