Job Description

Senior Research Associate, Cancer Immunology

W2 Contract

Salary Range: $93,600 - $114,400 per year

Location: Redwood City, CA - Onsite Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Use immunology techniques to perform in vitro and ex vivo cutting-edge studies to interrogate key scientific questions about established or candidate drug targets and therapeutic mechanisms.
• Support immune biomarker identification to inform patient selection for monotherapy and combination therapy strategies.
• Collaborate with biochemists, cell biologists, pharmacologists, and other team members to generate new models and novel insights that fuel drug development.
• Manage and analyze experimental data and present results at internal meetings and scientific conferences.
• Execute experimental strategies using cellular and molecular immunological techniques to investigate target biology and therapeutic mechanisms of action in in vitro and ex viv o immuno-oncology models.
• Expand our immune-based assay toolbox by implementing new technologies.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in Science with 3+ years of experience in a cell biology/cellular assay development role
• Deep expertise with mammalian cell culture across a variety of cell types (primary and immortalized) and growth conditions
• Demonstrated experience handling (maintaining, passaging, plating) multiple cell lines at once
• Hands-on experience with a wide range of cellular assay techniques (including, but not limited to, Flow Cytometry, Western Blot, MSD, qPCR) suitable for target identification and/or compound characterization.
• Rigorous, quantitative, attention to detail, keen to maximize efficiency.
• Highly organized and excellent record-keeping skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate collaboration with project and departmental teams
• Innovative, proactive team player with high energy who will thrive in our fast-paced drug discovery and development environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Immuno-oncology assays such as T cell proliferation, suppression and killing assays, antigen presentation assays, and phagocytosis assays
• Experience with primary immune cells, including human PBMC handling, isolation, and differentiation
• Incucyte cell-based assays
• Ex vivo experiments, including murine tissue collection, dissociation, and processing for downstream applications.

Desired Skills and Experience

Cancer immunology, Oncology, in vitro, ex vivo, mammalian cell culture, Flow Cytometry, Western Blot, MSD, qPCR, drug discovery, Immuno-oncology assays

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.

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