Research Assistant

Research Assistant

Job : 263690
Location: Augusta University
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary:

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About Us

Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today. Our mission and values make Augusta University an institution like no other.

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Location

Augusta University
- Our Health Sciences Campus: 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912

Job Summary

The candidate needs to have an undergraduate degree with computer language knowledge and skills. He/she will use R language, Matlab, Phyton, C++, and image processing. He/she will be responsible for data assembly, and analyses of big data, and image data for our precision medicine laboratory.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Performing dataset collection and assembly for the lab.
• Cleaning up of genomic data. Image processing of high-content imaging data generated by the lab.
• Big data analyses, including in-house and public gene/drug data. Correlation analysis and processing of drug sensitivity data generated in the lab.
• Generating programs to facilitate data analysis in the lab. Generating graphs and results for publication.
• Preparation of manuscripts for publication.
• Perform all other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, cell biology or other natural, life, health care or materials science directly related to the research area to which the position is assigned and experience in a research, basic science or clinical setting particularly clinical trials research.
OR
Associate's degree from an accredited college or university in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, cell biology or other natural, life, health care or materials science directly related to the research area to which the position is assigned and a minimum of three years' experience in a research, basic science or clinical setting particularly clinical trials research.

Preferred Qualifications

The candidate should have completed an undergraduate degree with computer-related training, and R language, Phyton, Matlab, and image processing experiences.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Ability to maintain confidentiality

Detail-oriented

Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases

Shift/Salary/Benefits

Shift: Days;
Monday - Friday

Pay Band: B5

Salary Minimum: $17.88

Salary to be commensurate with qualifications of the selected candidate within the established range (generally minimum-midpoint) of the position

Recruitment Period: 9/21/23 - Until Filled

Augusta University offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees.

Benefits that may be…