All required qualifications must be documented on application materials

This position is within the laboratories of Martin Felices and Jeffrey Miller at the Masonic Cancer Research Center. The employee will work on testing methodologies to improve Natural Killer (NK) based immunotherapies through a variety of techniques. The ideal candidate would be interested in furthering the scientific understanding of the immunology of cancer and developing novel assays for use by the lab. Responsibilities will be carried out with instruction, guidance and direction from supervisor.

Duties and Responsibilities:
(40%) Functional assays aimed at testing NK cell functionality with a variety of treatments under a variety of settings; all readouts in this setting to be carried out by microscopy, flow cytometry and CYTOF.
(30%) Data analysis and report generation using a variety of software packages (ImageJ, Flowjo, Graphpad PRISM, Excel)
(20%) Developing new assays and analysis techniques to assess NK cell function.
(10%) Long-term sterile tissue culture and cell based analysis

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