Research Associate 2

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The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Surgery has an exciting opportunity for a Full Time, Research Associate 2 to work in Miami. 

Core Job Summary:

The Research Associate 2, contributes to the University’s research activities under the supervision of senior staff. Moreover, the incumbent understands, interprets, and complies with research policies and protocols.

Core Responsibilities:

• Performs specialized and complex experiments/studies.

• Participates in the publication of significant research results.

• Advances expertise through education, training, and research.

• Writes extramural grants/proposals to gain support when appropriate.

• Collects, prepares, analyzes, dissects, and evaluates specimens and tissue cultures.

• Weighs and anesthetizes laboratory animals for experiments.

• Operates sensitive and highly complex laboratory equipment.

• Performs calculations to complete research test results.

• Performs photography and dark room processing.

• Participates in training sessions and workshops.

• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions:

• Serve as a bridge between computational biology and wet-lab research by analyzing multi-omics datasets (bulk, single-cell, and spatial) from patient tumors and disease models.

• Collaborate with data scientists, bioinformaticians, and cancer biologists to identify gene regulatory networks and investigate mechanisms of tumorigenesis, treatment resistance, and metastasis.

• Analyze high-throughput sequencing datasets (e.g., RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, Hi-C, and spatial transcriptomics), apply statistical modeling and machine learning, and develop computational workflows using R, Python, and GitHub.

• Contribute to data visualization, interpretation, and manuscript preparation; assist with wet-lab techniques such as library preparation, histology, PCR, flow cytometry, and media preparation; document workflows and results according to institutional and scientific standards; and adapt to evolving project priorities, workflow improvements, and emerging analytical needs.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience

• Skill in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data.

• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status:

Full time

Employee Type:

Staff