Laboratory Research Associate - (Oncology)

CHEManager International; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is seeking a regular full-time Laboratory Clinical Research Associate I to support the Clinical Research Services team in Shadyside/Pittsburgh, PA, and Magee Women’s Hospital location in Oakland/Pittsburgh, PA. The role follows a Monday–Friday daylight schedule across locations.

You will work under the Clinical Research Manager with physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals to execute protocol management tasks and ensure quality data collection for oncology

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 1 year post-college lab experience preferred.
• Experience with protocol management and data collection is beneficial.
• Experience in oncology research is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical trial lab responsibilities and ensure proper sample handling.
• De-identify samples, obtain patient consent, and coordinate with clinic sites.
• Enter data promptly into study databases and CRFs.
• Support monitoring visits and data collection with data locks.
• Prepare lab kits and ensure proper documentation and compliance.
• Track patient visits and assist in initiating new site evaluations and audits.

Skills

Lab experience

Detail oriented

Data entry accuracy

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare or related field

4 years clinical research experience

3 years clinical research with certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Purpose

The Clinical Research Services (CRS) team is made up of nearly 200 staff members who facilitate the development, implementation, coordination, internal data monitoring, and completion of oncology-focused trials at Hillman. These trials include institutional (investigator-initiated), multi-center cooperative group/National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN), consortium, and industry-sponsored trials. Using a disease-specific centers model for conducting clinical trials, CRS provides study development and implementation assistance, submissions to the FDA, IRB processing, patient recruitment, study coordination, study-specific training, data collection, and specimen collection and processing.

Purpose

The Clinical Research Services (CRS) team is made up of nearly 200 staff members who facilitate the development, implementation, coordination, internal data monitoring, and completion of oncology-focused trials at Hillman. These trials include institutional (investigator-initiated), multi-center cooperative group/National Clinical Trial Network (NCTN), consortium, and industry-sponsored trials. Using a disease-specific centers model for conducting clinical trials, CRS provides study development and implementation assistance, submissions to the FDA, IRB processing, patient recruitment, study coordination, study-specific training, data collection, and specimen collection and processing.

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is currently hiring a regular full-time Laboratory Clinical Research Associate I to help support the Clinical Research Services team located within the Hillman Cancer Center in Shadyside/Pittsburgh, PA, and at our Women's Oncology Program at Magee Women's Hospital location in Oakland/Pittsburgh, PA. This position will work a Monday through Friday daylight schedule working between locations.

Under the direction of the Clinical Research Manager, the research associate will work with physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals to facilitate clinical research trials provided through the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and UPMC Cancer Centers and to independently execute job functions related to protocol management.

Responsibilities

• Clinical trial research lab responsibilities
• Responsible for de-identification of samples, consenting of patients, extraction of samples, and coordination with the clinic at UPMC Hillman Shadyside and UPMC Community Centers.
• Responsible for prompt and accurate data entry for protocols.
• Assists with monitoring visits and coordinate data collection including data locks.
• Processes study specific data collection documents into case report forms.
• Assists the CRC in screening process and insures that patient's records, archival tissue, radiology tests, lab work results, etc. are obtained prior to patient entry into a study.
• Responsible for lab kit preparation.
• Demonstrates industry-accepted good documentation and clinical practices during the conduct of research to collect quality data, in compliance with institutional, and statutory guidelines.
• Maintains patient tracking spreadsheets to ensure data entry requirements are met.
• Works with CRC in managing the visits of active and FU patients on research protocols.
• Performs query resolution.
• Assists in the coordination of initiation, site evaluation, monitoring visits, and audits required by the sponsor.
  

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor's degree in healthcare or related field
  • OR four (4) years of experience in clinical research and/or related setting
  • OR three (3) years of experience in clinical research with certification.
• A minimum 1-year post-college lab experience is strongly preferred
• Pathology, genetics, or histology lab experience is a plus.
• Additional skills include prior knowledge and use of Microsoft Office software products and the ability to work with PC database applications.
• Preferred knowledge of research methodology and prior supervisory and or/ project management experience preferred.
• Oncology and/or Research experience preferred
  

Licensure, Certifications, And Clearances

• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran