Senior Technical Assistant - Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Laboratory - (496607 )

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 22,909 - 25,802; Full time

Job summary

The Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Laboratory focuses on developing models to investigate heart disease mechanisms. Our lab's goals are to explore the mechanisms of heart disease, design and build new technology platforms to assist in drug and mechanistic studies, and to bring a standard of excellence to all that we do as individual scientists and as a research team.

The ideal candidate will have a background in biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, biochemistry or related fields.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 0 years of experience.
• Experience in biomedical engineering or related fields is preferred.
• Experience with rodent models is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensures experiments are performed according to specifications.
• May make practical recommendations to changes in procedures as appropriate.
• Applies advanced skills.
• Varied and Non standardized duties.
• Performs advanced functions and copes independently with new or complex situations.
• Receives minimal supervision. May orient, guide and/or train employees.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering

Job description

Department: BiomedicalEngineering

Salary: 16.63 - 18.73

Description

Provides assistance and expertise in various areas of researchsuch as preparation of results for presentation, monitoring testsubjects, gathering and entering data, ensuring adherence toprocedures, and basic analyses of data.

1. Ensures experiments are performed according tospecifications.
2. May make practical recommendations to changes in procedures asappropriate.
3. Applies advanced skills.
4. Varied and Non standardized duties.
5. Performs advanced functions and copes independently with new orcomplex situations.
6. Receives minimal supervision. May orient, guide and/or trainemployees.

The Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Laboratory focuses ondeveloping models to investigate heart disease mechanisms. Ourlab's goals are to explore the mechanisms of heart disease, designand build new technology platforms to assist in drug andmechanistic studies to produce important new insights into thesemechanisms, and to bring a standard of excellence to all that we doas individual scientists and as a research team. The idealcandidate will have a background in biomedical engineering,chemical engineering, biochemistry or related fields. Experiencewith rodent models is a plus.

Experience will be considered in lieu ofeducation.

MQ: Bachelor's Degree with 0 years of experience.

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