Research Technician II - Integrative Biology & Pharmacology, lab

Research Technician II - Integrative Biology & Pharmacology, lab

Location: Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas

Category: Research

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Requisition #: 2300024S

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees

• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)

• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!

• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)

• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as…

• Free financial and legal counseling

• Free mental health counseling services

• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs

• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.

• Resources for child and elder care

• Plus many more!

Full time, nonexempt laboratory based position in Integrative Biology & Pharmacology located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Animal housing and experiments, as well as basic laboratory assays, such as cell culture, qPCR, Western Blot, and staining.

Position Summary:

Provides technical assistance in carrying out assigned duties of research projects.

Position Key Accountabilities:

1. Prepares, conducts, records, and analyzes various tests in a clinical and/or diagnostic laboratory setting involved in research.

2. Collects appropriate patient history data. Research subjects may range from traumatically injured central nervous system and burn patients, patients with respiratory disorders, and rheumatology patients.

3. Collects human and animal blood and urine specimens and conducts various tests involving chemical and carcinogenic agents, animal psychophysics, retinal histology, and various tissue cultures. Collection techniques includes data collection, assays, cell passaging, arterial punctures, obtaining blood samples, and performing rheumatologic tests.

4. Processes blood and urine specimens to obtain tests results.

5. Performs tests using a centrifuge, UV light microscope with fluorescent attachment, autoclave machine, and pipet washer equipment.

6. Cleans and sterilizes all glassware, instruments, and pipets.

7. Orders and stocks laboratory with supplies.

8. Obtains and photocopies reference materials.

9. Maintains a safe laboratory environment and follows safety procedures.

10. Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

None.

Minimum Education:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Minimum Experience:

Two years of research laboratory experience.

May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

This position may include work involving potentially hazardous chemical, biological or radioactive agents.

Security Sensitive:

This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215

Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.

UTHealth Benefits

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