Research Principal Sr

UPMC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital invite applications for a lab position in the Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD laboratory within the Translational Neuroscience Program of the Department of Psychiatry. The role focuses on postmortem and computational research to understand the synaptic disruptions that contribute to working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

This grant-funded position offers opportunities to mentor staff and contribute to

Responsibilities

• Mentor, train, and assist with supervising junior research staff.
• Provide advanced level research and/or clinical and administrative support for the research study including preparing and presenting presentations, analyzing and interpreting data, collaborating with principal investigator on manuscripts, scientific articles, and grant submissions.
• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Conduct Execute postmortem studies, including expansion microscopy, nanoscale imaging and post-image processing.
• Oversee lab organization, assist with recruitment and staff supervision, and help to plan, coordinate and supervise research projects and lab experiments/procedures.
• Collect and analyze data, and prepare results for scientific presentations and publication.
• Provides operational oversight of the basic science research and instrumentation.

Job description

This position is in the laboratory of Daniel Wonjae Chung, MD, PhD, which is part of the Translational Neuroscience Program in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital. The lab's team conducts postmortem and computational research to increase our understanding of the synaptic disruptions that lead to working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

This position is grant funded.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor, train, and assist with supervising junior research staff.

• Provide advanced level research and/or clinical and administrative support for the research study including preparing and presenting presentations, analyzing and interpreting data, collaborating with principal investigator on manuscripts, scientific articles, and grant submissions.

• Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Conduct Execute postmortem studies, including expansion microscopy, nanoscale imaging and post-image processing.

• Oversee lab organization, assist with recruitment and staff supervision, and help to plan, coordinate and supervise research projects and lab experiments/procedures.

• Collect and analyze data, and prepare results for scientific presentations and publication.

• Provides operational oversight of the basic science research and instrumentation.