RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 2

Updated: 26 days ago
Location: Seattle, WASHINGTON
Deadline: Open Until Filled

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. 

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. 

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology has an outstanding opportunity for a 1.0 FTE Research Scientist/Engineer II. We are seeking a motivated individual to further the investigation of Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative syndromes using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).

The UW BioRepository and Integrated Neuropathology (BRaIN) Research Laboratory’s mission is to advance human brain science, with emphasis on brain aging and neurodegeneration, neurotrauma, and neurooncology, through human brain donation and analysis using, and developing, the latest quantitative methods. The BRaIN lab has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer II to participate in efforts to generate, maintain, and characterize hiPSCs derived from donated human brain specimens. The position is focused on developing novel models of neurodegenerative disease and ultimately testing hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease using these models.  Under the general supervision of the Principle Investigator, the senior research scientist will be responsible for/participate in all aspects of hiPSC differentiation, maintenance, and characterization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
This position will support Research activities including but not limited to:



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