Research Associate, Pharmaceutical Production Research Facility Lab

Position Overview
The Pharmaceutical Production Research Facility Lab in the Department of Bio-medical Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering invites applications for a Research Associate. This Full-time Fixed Term position is for approximately 12 months (based on length of grant funding), with the possibility of extension.
The Pharmaceutical Production Research Facility (PPRF) Lab is a bioprocess engineering lab focusing on the scalable expansion of stem cells and their derivatives in bioreactors for regenerative medicine applications. We are a collaborative biomedical engineering group working closely with researchers in medicine, science, veterinary medicine and other branches of engineering.
The Research Associate will act in the role of lab manager on a day-to-day basis and will report to the Principal Investigator (PI) of the PPRF Lab.
Position Description
Summary of Key Responsibilities (job functions include but are not limited to):

• Responsible for management, maintenance, or control of a specialized area
• Participate in the design and development of experiments and processes
• Assist with grant writing and submission
• Produce initial drafts of manuscripts for publication and appropriate scientific journals
• Responsible for presentations in producing figures for publication
• Responsible for laboratory safety, including SOPs, biosafety compliance, CHEMATIX, hazardous waste disposal
• Recommend changes to methods, procedures, and practices within the lab
• Assist with summer student and graduate student recruitment and hiring
• Responsible for maintenance, operation and troubleshooting of various bioprocessing and cell culture infrastructure, as well as training students and research personnel on proper use
• Assist with monitoring research accounts, grant budgets and spending allocations
• Responsible for ordering as required
• Responsible, in consultation with the PI, for designing and executing experimental plans, leading research projects across a range of topics, data collection, coordinating academic meetings, and writing collaborative papers.
• Responsible for documenting and maintaining cell lines in the lab, including cell line integrity. (Routine mycoplasma screening, spontaneous y chromosome loss or single nucleotide variants in iPSC cell banks

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Understanding of safety codes and standards related to specialization
• Ability to provide technical support for other team members through advice on technical lab issues
• Minimum 3 years of hands on technical experience and completion of post-secondary education in related discipline (science or engineering)
• Bachelors required; MSc or PhD in relevant discipline preferred (science or engineering)
• Strong interpersonal skills, enthusiasm for collaborative research
• Experience organizing academic seminars
• Success in securing external research funding
• 3 to 5 years of related technical experience within the research specialty field - bioprocessing and bioengineering
• Experience with stem cell culture
• Mammalian cell culturing, molecular biology techniques such as qPCR, flow, immunocytochemistry, microscopy
• Ability to perform detailed design, documentation, and implementation of moderately complex experimental designs
• Administrative experience managing budgets and service agreements
• Interact with other members of the team and undertake literature reviews
• Experience providing mentorship and supervision to junior researchers and students, including experience as a postsecondary instructor
• Recommend change to processes or procedures
• Must be open to learning and development, and be willing to accept new challenges and assignments.
• Direct and demonstrable research experience in the subject matter of the research project is essential
• Knowledge of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or modeling would be an asset
• Operate and maintain complex technical equipment

Application Deadline: September 04, 2023
We would like to thank all applicants in advance for submitting their resumes. Please note, only those candidates chosen to continue on through the selection process will be contacted.
Additional Information
This position is part of the AUPE bargaining unit, and falls under the Technical Job Family, Phase 2 .
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