**Job Description**
This Research Assistant position in Prof Leonie Taams’s lab at King’s College London offers high-quality laboratory research support for ongoing projects, including a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award-funded project focused on identifying drivers of pain and inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. The role also involves providing technical support for the processing of human rheumatological samples, requiring a solid background in immunobiology, strong organizational, and technical skills.
**Skills & Abilities**
• Good basic understanding of immunobiology
• Interest in applying knowledge to the study of human inflammatory arthritis
• Excellent organisational and technical skills
• Experience in human blood and tissue sample processing, storage and recording
• Demonstrable experience in human immune and/or stromal cell culture
• Cytokine detection assays
• Multi-parameter flow cytometry (e.g. Fortessa, Canto, CytoFlex)
• Molecular biology skills
• Knowledge of HTA and health and safety regulations
• Proactive and problem-solving attitude
• Excellent data analysis and record keeping skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and time management skills
• Strong practical (lab-based) experience in cellular and molecular biology techniques (e.g., cell culture, ELISA/Luminex, qPCR and/or western blotting)
• Hands-on experience in multi-parameter flow cytometry experiment design, acquisition and analysis
• Ability to work independently but also as part of a team
• Experience with GraphPad Prism and/or R (desirable)
• Authorship contribution(s) to peer-reviewed literature (desirable)
• Theoretical knowledge of rheumatological diseases (desirable)
• Experience with (immuno) histology (desirable)
**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Biology
• Immunology
• Related subject
**Experience**
Other:
• Previous experience in human blood and tissue sample processing, storage and recording is essential.
• Demonstrable experience in human immune and/or stromal cell culture.
• Knowledge of HTA and health and safety regulations.
• Hands-on experience in multi-parameter flow cytometry experiment design, acquisition and analysis.
• Strong practical (lab-based) experience in cellular and molecular biology techniques (e.g., cell culture, ELISA/Luminex, qPCR, western blotting).
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