Preferred Knowledge, Skills and, Abilities: A bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, or other natural, life or health care science and one year work experience directly related to the assigned research area; or a high school diploma and three years advanced journey-level work experience in a clinical, basic science, animal care or research laboratory. Specifically, the applicant will utilize cell and molecular biology techniques including but limited to, cell culture, molecular cloning, and enzymatic assays; transfections and gene expression assays; protein, RNA and DNA isolation and separation; ELISA; real-time RTPCR; immunostaining and flow cytometry; proliferation and apoptosis assays and immunohistochemistry.