Position Summary
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Med - Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care, is in search of a dedicated Researcher Senior to join their team. As a Researcher Senior, you will have expanded responsibilities, oversee complex or multiple research projects and provide strategic direction. This professional-level role involves mentoring junior researchers, managing project budgets, and ensuring the integrity and quality of research outcomes. Your expertise will be critical in guiding experimental design, data interpretation, and contributing to high impact publications. Depending on the research focus, this position may involve research collaborator contact, research animal contact, and/or specimens.
General Responsibilities
As a Researcher Senior, you will have expanded responsibilities, overseeing complex or multiple research projects and providing strategic direction. This professional-level role involves mentoring junior researchers, managing project budgets, and ensuring the integrity and quality of research outcomes. Your expertise will be critical in guiding experimental design, data interpretation, and contributing to high-impact publications. Depending on the research focus, this position may involve research collaborator contact, research animal contact, and/or specimens.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Design and conduct preclinical and translational research focused on respiratory and toxicological diseases, including pulmonary fibrosis, COPD, asthma, environmental and deployment-related respiratory diseases, small airway disease, lung physiology, inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction.
Independently evaluate research objectives, design experiments, adapt or develop scientific methodologies, and execute studies using appropriate laboratory and preclinical models.
Perform and oversee experimental studies and laboratory methodologies, including development, optimization, validation, and implementation of new research techniques and quality-control procedures.
Ensure experimental procedures meet established protocols, quality standards, and requirements for reproducibility.
Collect, manage, analyze, and interpret research data while maintaining data integrity, quality assurance, protocol compliance, and reproducibility.
Apply appropriate statistical methods and evaluate experimental results to inform research conclusions and subsequent study design.
Develop scientific reports and research products including research summaries, statistical analyses, figures, graphs, presentations, manuscripts, abstracts, and grant-related materials.
Communicate scientific findings through laboratory meetings, departmental seminars, journal clubs, conferences, and other professional forums.
Manage laboratory research operations and documentation, including laboratory notebooks, research records, inventories, databases, animal-related records, and regulatory documentation.
Maintain accurate and timely documentation in accordance with institutional policies and Good Laboratory Practices.
Develop, submit, maintain, and implement IACUC protocols and ensure compliance with institutional, federal, ethical, animal welfare, laboratory safety, and research requirements.
Maintain required documentation and implement approved procedures throughout the conduct of animal research.
Train and provide technical guidance to laboratory personnel, students, and research trainees in experimental procedures, laboratory techniques, data practices, safety requirements, and research best practices.
Monitor adherence to established experimental and laboratory procedures.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary research teams including investigators, clinicians, trainees, and research staff to execute study objectives, integrate scientific expertise, and advance research initiatives.
Participate actively in laboratory meetings, scientific discussions, and collaborative research activities.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Salary Range: $60,835- $65,000
Qualifications
Doctorate degree in a related field OR Master's degree in a related field and two (2) years of related experience OR Bachelor's degree in related field and four (4) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.
Preferences
Ideal candidate will have PhD preferably in Immunology, Pulmonary Biomedical Sciences, Physiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, or a related field.
Candidate should have at least five (5) years of related experience in postdoctoral training.
Candidate should be able to independently and collaboratively work in a multidisciplinary research environment.
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