This position requires the application of technical and analytical skills, subject area of knowledge, and excellent organization and communication skills to complete a variety of tasks across disciplines with limited supervision. Responsibilities include coordinating brain tissue requests, performing brain dissections and collecting brain samples, and cutting and staining brain tissue for immunohistochemical analyses. The incumbent oversees a larger organizational project to process the large volume of incoming cases. To this end, the incumbent works with our data-core team to create specimen-tracking databases, trains and manages interns and provides training and oversight to a work group of research assistants who assist with brain tissue dissections and processing tissue. The incumbent is involved in several collaborations with our Brain Bank team and will assist with manuscript preparation.

Skills

There will occasion to travel from VA Bedford to Boston University School of Medicine and to the VA Healthcare systems of Jamaica Plain, applicant should have some mode of transportation or access to transportation. There is an occasion for rotating weekend or overtime coverage. The position requires handling human biological samples and preparation of samples for analysis.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.