This position works with human tissues and blood, develops new assay approaches, analyzes and presents research data, learns and implements new instrument-based methods, provides day-to-day guidance to junior technicians, and collaborates with investigators, bioinformaticians, and biostatisticians to advance research objectives and scientific publications. The Staff Research Associate III supports human cancer translational research by independently performing, optimizing, and troubleshooting molecular biology, proteomic, next-generation sequencing (NGS), cell culture, and PCR-based assays.