You can make a difference in a child’s life. Shriners Hospital is the largest provider of pediatric sub-specialty orthopedic and burn care in Northern California and is recognized by US News and World Report as a top pediatric hospital in the country.

Shriners Children’s Hospital is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

SHCNC offers a competitive salary and benefit package, including medical, dental, vision, disability, retirement, health savings account (HSA), pet insurance, paid time off, continuing education and professional development opportunities. Other considerations include free parking, team-approached interdisciplinary care, friendly environment and the satisfaction that our patients are receiving the best care available.

This position collaborates and works in a newly established laboratory that focuses on brain injury related to hydrocephalus and cerebral palsy and seeks to understand the interaction of brain fluids on neuronal function. The PI is a neurosurgeon-scientist and the lab website is http://sadeghlab.org.

The pay range for this position is $33.29-$49.94/hourly. Compensation is determined based on relevent experience and equity. 

• In collaboration with the PI, design hypotheses and experiments to answer questions at a physiological,
  cellular, and molecular level concerning the fluid-producing tissue in the brain, the choroid plexus.
• Assist in the development of experimental protocols and techniques related to gene therapy to target the choroid plexus.
• Develop methodologies for neuronal cell dissociation and tissue culture.
• Assist in program development of a laboratory that will focus on the neuroscience of brain fluids
• Assist in setting up collaborations within the University and other institutions.
• Assist with the education and supervision of laboratory personnel.
• Assist with the management of day-to-day running of the laboratory, including maintaining a biobank of patient-derived specimens.
• Assist in hiring appropriate personnel as directed.
• Provide supervision to SRAs, who will be primarily responsible for ordering and maintaining supplies.
• Develop skills to obtain third-party funding for research initiatives (i.e. NIH).
• Assist with data management and development of data for presentation and publication.
• Assist all users in image core and histological core, including training (both hardware and software) and trouble shooting.

This is not an all-inclusive list of this job’s responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Minimum:

• Doctorate Degree in a related field

Preferred:

• 1+ years experience in a hospital setting
• PhD in neurobiology