Lab Manager

The Lab Manager role is responsible for facilitating a senior faculty member’s research program through management of the laboratory operations and specifically the management of grant timelines, lab deliverables, and collaborations with other entities. Responsibility will include assistance with PI’s administrative responsibilities in the laboratory and supervision of technical staff to manage and maintain good laboratory practice. This individual will report to the Associate Director of the Center for Early Detection and Interception of Blood Cancers and the PI and work closely with PI’s management team.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations.

We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

The Center for Early Detection and Interception of Blood Cancers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School advances the understanding of blood cancers and their precursor states.

https://www.dana-farber.org/cancer-care/treatment/early-detection-interception/blood-cancers

Responsibilities

Laboratory Operations

• Institute, maintain, and improve standard procedures for laboratory efficiencies, including monitoring laboratory expenditure.
• Responsible for overseeing efficient inventory maintenance and ordering. This includes flow antibodies, restriction enzymes, proteins, plasmids, and DNA to name a few.
• Responsible, directly or indirectly, for care, repair and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
• Ensure good laboratory practice directly or indirectly through supervised activities of technicians and trainees.
• Execute agreement deliverables andaid in the development of critical workflows and procedure as they relate to various grants and contracts.

Tissue Banking,Center for Early Detection and Interception of Blood Cancers

• Oversee that proper sample logging and processing SOPs are executed for all incoming blood and bone marrow samples from different biobanking efforts and clinical trials occurring at DFCI and with national/international collaborations.
• Compile and maintain a comprehensive inventory system within relevant software solutions for sample/tissue custody and assist with curating sample record reports with researchers for different projects, while closely working with the clinical research team to ensure regulatory compliance in all workflows.
• Supervise and actively communicate and problem-solve with a team of lab technicians assigned to variable roles in the lab.
• Seek out new opportunities to improve/streamline current workflows and systems within the Ghobrial Lab.

Scientific Operations

• Responsible for efficient management of agreement deliverables, sample/tissue custody and record keeping, aiding in the development of critical workflows and procedure as they relate to various grants and contracts, and improving/streamlining current workflows and systems within the Ghobrial Lab
• Assist PI in proposing and facilitate collaborations with other entities
• Active intellectual involvement in research projects is encouraged.
• Ability to manage mice colonies, genotype and conduct breeding of multiple strains.
• Ability to conduct a variety of library preparations for different sequencing workflows,…