Staff Research Associate II - Surgery

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Work Schedule

Monday through Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm. Hours may vary

Posted Date

11/13/2026

Salary Range: $32.79 - 52.75 Hourly

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

33978

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The candidate will work as a full-time Staff Research Associate II (SRA II) in a cutting-edge regenerative medicine research laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Gerald Lipshutz.

More specifically, the SRA II will primarily work on a mouse model of metabolic disease, using a gene therapy treatment to correct the abnormality and analysis of organs, blood and tissues for expression levels. The candidate will perform a variety of routine experimental protocols and procedures at a fully operational level, including but not limited to, animal experiments, use of human specimens, cell and tissue culture, DNA/RNA/genomic DNA extraction, ELISA and western blots. The SRA II will also take on a significant portion of the lab management duties, including supply management, ordering, and equipment maintenance and calibration. The candidate will also coordinate and assist with general lab support activities (e.g. making common lab reagents). The SRA II candidate will have some supervisory responsibilities as the day-to-day manager of the undergraduate students and other part-time members of the Lipshutz Lab.

The full hourly salary range for this position is $32.79 - $52.75. The department's target hourly rate is $34.81.

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Ability to use computer software for word processing, data tabulation and graphing.
• Ability and knowledge to operate basic laboratory equipment, i.e. centrifuge, tissue culture hood and related equipment, autoclaving, weighing, pipetting microliter volumes, etc.
• Ability and working knowledge of DNA, RNA, protein purification and quantification; PCR, qPCR, Western Blot.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with other researchers, vendors, suppliers, and maintenance engineers.
• Exceptional organizational and recordkeeping skills.
• Ability to perform tasks accurately and in a timely manner working independently under the program guidelines and under frequent changes in priorities and deadlines
• Knowledge and ability to order supplies and maintain laboratory equipment.
• Bachelor of Science degree life/biomedical science discipline, or equivalent experience
• Ability to generate hypotheses, suggest experimental designs, interpret data and recognize aberrant results.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge and experience in general immunology, cell biology and molecular and biology techniques.
• Ability to handle mice.
• Knowledge of cell culture and sterile techniques.
• Prior experience in oncology biomedical research.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.