Translational Project and Lab Manager - Hybrid

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Posted: 12-Mar-24

Location: La Jolla, California

Salary: Open

Categories:

Research - Laboratory/Non-Laboratory
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 128658

Special Selection Applicants: Apply by 03/22/2024. Eligible Special Selection clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.

This position will work a hybrid schedule which includes a combination of working both onsite at Moores Cancer Center and remote.

DESCRIPTION

The Moores Cancer Center (MCC) is one of just 54 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States and the only one in San Diego County. As a consortium cancer center, it is a collaborative partnership between the UCSD: encompassing 28 departments, 6 schools (School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health, Jacobs School of Engineering, School of Biological Sciences & the School of Physical Sciences), UCSD Health oncology hospitals and clinics; the basic and public health research and outreach of San Diego State University (SDSU), and the basic and translational research of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology (LJI). These various programs and units are all dedicated to fulfilling the Moores Cancer Center's mission of reducing cancer's burden. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting the continuum of cancer research, providing advanced patient care, and serving the community through outreach and education programs. As a top-ranking, future-oriented organization, we offer challenging career opportunities in a fast-paced and innovative environment. Moores Cancer Center follows a progressive philosophy of career-path development for its employees including opportunities for cross-training, professional development, and progressive responsibility.

MCC's mission is to transform cancer care in our catchment area and beyond by driving exceptional scientific discoveries and innovations in prevention, detection, care, and training. MCC will make a global impact on improving health by reducing cancer burden through accelerated discovery and translation, compassionate and interdisciplinary care, education and community engagement, with the foundation of our core values - Excellence, Innovation and Risk-Taking, Collaboration, Diversity and Service.

The Clinical Trials Office (CTO) at UCSD's Moores Cancer Center administers many clinical trials on behalf of its member investigators, including trials sponsored by National Cancer Institute cooperative groups, pharmaceutical companies, and physician investigators.

Reporting directly to the Associate Director, Clinical Operations of the Clinical Trials Office (CTO), the Translational Research and Lab Project Manager will serve as the UCSD Manager for clinical research collaboration related to clinical databases and clinical specimens. The Translational Research and Lab Project Manager will work closely with oncologists, translational researchers, bioinformaticians, pathologists and geneticists in the context of clinical research protocols whose objective is to further personalized medicine and cancer clinical trials at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center. The incumbent will be actively involved with the MCC biorepository serum/tissue bank of blood and solid tumor samples obtained from Cancer Center patients and serum/tissue bank consented participants.

Provides day-to-day technical leadership and administrative supervision to laboratory staff engaged in the execution of multiple, complex research specimen processing protocols. Provides administrative oversight of research activity and participates in the formulation and implementation of operating strategies and policies, protocols, systems, and procedures. Serve as the investigators' and clinical fellows' primary contact for inquiries related to their clinical trials or lab resources. Additional responsibilities include management and prioritization of queries from Industry, Moores Cancer Center Administration, and from individual PIs. Participates in research grant opportunities and draft grant proposals as required. The Project Manager will interface with clinical monitors to review data accuracy, protocol violations and deviations, and regular updates to reporting, including oversight of medical and clinical research data quality. The incumbent manages all aspects of the CTO lab's operations, including laboratory inventory and maintenance, maintenance of applicable laboratory and equipment certificates, clinical trial implementation and execution, quality assurance and research compliance, and strategic planning and project management.

The Translational Research and Lab Project Manager's specific duties will include (directly or through subordinates): identifying and obtaining informed consent from patients/participants seen in various cancer center clinics, explain the nature of the study, confidentiality and procedures; screening medical records, abstracting relevant medical data per protoco

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