Research assistant

Do you want to contribute to improving human health?

The Ivarsson Team is a newly formed team within the Center for Infectious Medicine, at ANA Futura, Department of Medicine in Huddinge. The goal of the team is to perform world-leading research within human uterine immunology, with the aim at translating the knowledge to the clinic. By combining analysis on human uterine immune cells with clinical and diagnostic information, we aim to identify biomarkers that can help to determine a woman’s individual risk of suffering pregnancy complications.

Your mission

We are looking to recruit a research assistant who will be working with PhD students, postdocs and research midwives to investigate uterine immune cells, particularly NK cells, in the context of IVF and spontanaus bleeding during early pregnancy. A full-time position is available for 1 year with the possibility of extension another year. You will have the opportunity to put your experimental skills to good use as well as learn new techniques. Your experimental duties will be varied including opportunities to use cutting-edge technologies for the isolation, identification, and characterisation of primary cells. We are looking for a highly motivated and well-organized person that must have good communication skills and ability to interact with colleagues and collaborators.

Key Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities will include isolation and storage/biobanking of cells from human uterine tissue, blood and serum.
You will also contribute to analysis of cells by advanced flow cytometry.

Your profile

Requirements:

Master’s degree in Medical Science, Immunology or equivalent when the position starts
Experience in cell isolation from human blood, and tissue, culturing of primary cells, DNA/RNA isolation, ELISA, qRT-PCR and data analysis
Excellent interpersonal skills are required.
The applicant must speak and write fluent English.
Excellent references from previous work environments

Meritorious:

Experience in working with human immune cells including NK cells and MAIT cells.
Excellent organizational skill
Contributions to publications

What do we offer?

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is a state university, which entitles employees to several benefits such as extended holiday and a generous occupational pension. Employees also have free access to our modern gym and receive reimbursements for medical care.

Location: Flemingsberg

Application

Welcome to apply at the latest 2021-07-21.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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