Associate Academic Research Scientist

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community.

The Associate Academic Research Scientist performs a wide range of highly technical and complex research duties and has documented scientific achievements and increasing technical, management, leadership, and professional expertise necessary to advance basic and/or translational research programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of research and experimental platforms for analyzing, design and interpreting results Investigates and recommends potential alternative approaches to improve the quality of results of basic and/or translational research.
• Demonstrates increased responsibility through management of teams and leadership of scientific projects by applying advanced knowledge, skills, and input necessary for protocol development, as well as facilitating in some training aspects of other team members.
• Aids in writing IACUC, IRB, Biosafety and other approval documents.
• Oversees quality assurance of research conducted by other team members.
• May assist in grant and other funding applications as necessary and appropriate, or with approval of the responsible faculty director, may have their own research projects and/or have full responsibilities for specific areas of instrumentation or methodology development and user support.
• With the approval of the responsible faculty director, may be principal investigators on funded proposals.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD and one year of professional level experience in a technical or research lab.
• Or master's degree and three years of professional level experience in a technical or research lab.
• Or bachelor's degree and five years of professional level experience in a technical or research lab.
• Laboratory experience should be based on area of assignment.
• Internship experience or experience prior to attaining the qualifying degree is not considered eligible work experience for this job classification.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD with minimal 5 years postdoctoral fellow training, strong research background in mouse models, particularly GEMM models, cell senescence, molecular biology, bioinformatics, cell image, and drug resistance.