Junior Application Specialist – Tissue Culture
Junior Application Specialist – Tissue Culture
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yesterday | 3 Oct | Maastricht |
Are you an enthusiastic tissue culture expert with experience in the tissue engineering and regenerative medicine field? Would you like to work in an international, small-scale environment with large societal impact? Then we have an interesting job for you at ReGEN Biomedical.
Job description
As the Junior Application Specialist – Tissue Culture, you will be responsible for running, troubleshooting, and further developing manual tissue culture protocols with an aim of translating them to ReGEN Biomedical’s automated pilot line for producing micro- and macro-tissues. This includes maintaining relevant cells in culture, logging all activity, and reporting on the progress and technical challenges.
In this role, your tasks will include:
- cryopreserving cells and bringing cryopreserved cells into culture
- taking care of 2D and 3D cell cultures (media changes, passages)
- running test protocols with the cells in culture
- understanding the functioning of the automated tissue culture line and adapting manual tissue culture protocols for automation readiness
- inventory management and purchasing of cells, reagents, and consumables
- ensuring proper documentation of all experiments
- maintaining strong communication with other technical team members
- keeping management up to date with experimental progress and technical challenges or opportunities
Specifications
- max. 38 hours per week
- Maastricht View on Google Maps
ReGEN Biomedical
Requirements
We are looking for an independent and collaborative tissue culture expert with the following skills and experiences:
- Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering or another Life Sciences area, preferably with over 2 years of tissue culture experience. A relevant degree is not a necessity for a candidate with suitable experience and aptitude
- Experience with cultured human primary and stem cells is preferred. Experience with hMSCs, human iPSCs, human ESCs and 3D cell culture techniques will be beneficial.
- Experience with immunostaining and imaging of cells is a plus
- Experience with image and other biological data analysis is a plus
- Experience with maintaining a lab notebook is beneficial
- Structured approach, attention to detail
- Organizational skills, hands-on mentality
- Result-oriented, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good reporting skills
- Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary team members
- Good communication skills – experience of sharing results, issues, and progress preferred. Working language is English. Knowledge of Dutch is useful but not necessary.
- Available for 38 hours (1 FTE) per week on site in Maastricht.
Conditions of employment
Fixed-term contract: 1 year, with a view to permanent employment.
We offer
A challenging position with a lot of responsibility in an environment that is constantly changing, a pleasant working atmosphere and an open culture. The position is versatile, offers plenty of opportunities for further development and provides the opportunity to put your own stamp on it.
The position is based in Maastricht. If suitability is demonstrated, an appropriate salary will be offered for the position, depending on education and experience. The secondary employment conditions are excellent.
The appointment is initially for the period of one year, with a view to permanent employment.
Employer
ReGEN Biomedical is a startup company that aims to revolutionize the manufacturing of large numbers of high quality functional micro-tissues for drug testing and regenerative medicine therapies.
ReGEN Biomedical is company with a small and talented team that is building a production location for human tissue in Maastricht. It focuses on growing large quantities of robust and reproducible small tissue pieces (micro-tissues) for toxicity & pharma screening.
Functional micro-tissues represent the next step in mimicking patient organs and represent the future of personalized medicine. We are building expertise on how to assemble the micro-tissues into functional pieces of human organs, the socalled macro-tissues. The micro-tissues also serve as building blocks for RM therapies and will be assembled into functional macro-tissues.
Sharing this opportunity in your network would be appreciated!
Additional information
For more information about this role, you can contact Dr. Ravi Sinha ([email protected] or 0031 (0)6 38570526).
To apply, please send your CV and cover letter using the application button.
This position is open till 3rd October 2022. Interviews will be scheduled as soon as we receive a few suitable applications, so please apply immediately.
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