Scientist

Preferred Skills and Experience: HT(ASCP) or HTL(ASCP) certification Familiarity with principles and techniques of immunohistochemistry

Note: 6 months full-time contract role, 100% lab based role at SSF, CA.

Responsibilities: The Anatomic Pathology group at Client Research Laboratories, South San Francisco, is seeking an experienced, self-motivated, highly collaborative contract histotechnician/histotechnologist (up to 6 months) to join us to help support basic research, mechanistic studies, and biomarker development for evaluations of candidate therapeutics. The successful candidate will have a strong histology background, excellent organizational skills, and the capacity to handle multiple responsibilities in a team environment, often under stringent time pressures. Responsibilities for the position will include:

• Assistance with mouse tissue collection/tissue handling at necropsy.
• Familiarity with and implementation of routine fixation and decalcification protocols
• Grossing in of a wide array of human and animal tissues, both osseous and non-osseous
• Assistance with data entry and database updating for specimens in in-house tissue bank.
• Fixed tissue processing and maintenance of tissue processors
• Tissue embedding into paraffin/OCT.Sectioning of FFPE and frozen tissue blocks
• Labeling of slides and tissue cassettes using automated slide and cassette printers
• Performance of routine (H&E) and special histochemical stains (both manual and automated)
• The successful candidate will be a strong communicator with good writing skills, which will be used to generate well-organized, comprehensive, and timely documentation of work planned and results on completion.
• The successful candidate may occasionally be responsible, with supervision, for designing small experiments to test new methods, improve old methods, and/or answer well-defined questions pertaining to tissue properties.
• The successful candidate will consult with investigators on points of technical detail regarding tissue handling as needed.
• Comfort with common office computer software (e.g. Microsoft Office) is essential.