Senior Associate Scientist, Histologist

The Pathology team is seeking a Senior Associate Scientist, Histologist. Experience working in a histology laboratory is essential. An understanding of anatomy and histology processes, including but not limited to grossing, tissue embedding and sectioning of paraffin and OCT blocks is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Histotechnology including trimming, processing, embedding, sectioning and staining (H&E, special stains) of tissue samples (including but not limited to rodent, nhp, rabbit and human tissues).
• General laboratory assistance including ordering and receiving of lab supplies, preparation of reagents, and histology lab equipment maintenance
• Maintain regulatory compliance, SOPs, incident reporting and training
• Filing of slides and blocks
• Identify operational and technical problems and maintain equipment
• Cross-functional collaboration with the research group and broadly with other departments throughout the company

Some workday hours flexibility dependent on study needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • BS in life sciences with 3+ years of relevant histology laboratory experience or Masters degree with 2+ years of relevant histology laboratory experience.

• Essential skills:
  • Microtomy
  • FFPE tissue embedding
  • Operation & maintenance of histology equipment (automated stainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, microtomes)
  • Knowledge of Anatomy
  • Ability to work collaboratively within the team

• Desirable skills:
  • Experience in biotechnology or CRO-based pathology laboratory setting
  • Experience operating & maintaining a cryostat
  • HT or HTL ASCP certification
  • Experience with data entry
  • Experience with Image capture
  • Experience collecting and reporting laboratory metrics

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