Medical Lab Scientist - Stem Cell Lab - Second Shift
Listed on 2026-08-01
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Research/Development
Medical Technologist & Lab Technician, Clinical Research, Medical Science
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Duke University Health System Clinical Laboratories
Pursue your passion for caring and innovation as a team member in the state-of-the-art Duke Health laboratories. Duke Health laboratories are College of American Pathologists accredited and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments certified. The multidisciplinary team is committed to serving the rare and complex testing needs of Duke Health patients by providing timely and accurate results, educating the next generation of laboratorians, scientists and physicians, and researching and developing the cutting-edge diagnostics of tomorrow.
Medical Lab Scientist, Advanced in the Stem Cell Lab at Duke University Hospital. Monday - Friday, Second
Shift: either 11:00 a.m.
- 7:30 p.m. or 12:00 p.m.
- 8:30 p.m. One on-call weekend per month.
This position is eligible for the second-shift differential and a $5,000 commitment bonus.
Stem Cell or Blood Bank experience, as well as ASCP certification strongly preferred.
General Description
Perform a variety of routine and complex technical tasks in the performance of laboratory tests and procedures to obtain data for use in the treatment of disease. Job duties include, but are not limited, quality control, clerical tasks (EMMES data entry, patient lab file reviews, completion of CIMBTR forms, etc). ABO Typing, viability testing, sterility testing, thawing of cellular products (37°C, Dextran Albumin Thaws), and cryopreservation of autologous and allogeneic cellular products to include, but not limited to: HPC, Cord Blood, HPC, Apheresis, HPC, Marrow, MNC, Apheresis, etc.
Receipt and/or distribution of incoming or outgoing NMDP cellular products using sterile techniques.
Duties Performed: (Technical Duties)
1. QC on Sysmex Hematology Analyzer
2. 37°C thawing of cellular products (in STCL and on inpatient units)3. Viability testing using trypan blue (or automated method)
4. ABO/Rh confirmatory testing of cellular products
5. Sterility testing of cellular products pre- and/or post-processing
6. Dextran Albumin thawing of cellular products in the STCL
7. Cryopreservation of cellular products (HPC, Apheresis, HPC, Marrow, HPC, Cord Blood, MNC, Apheresis, etc)
8. CD34+ / CD56+ selection/depletion procedures
9. Processing outgoing NMDP (Be the Match) products including CIBMTR data entry
10. Processing incoming NMDP (Be the Match) products for infusion
11. Processing of fresh, allogeneic products for cryopreservation, infusion
12. Processing of fresh, autologous products for cryopreservation, infusion
13. Disposal and documentation of cellular products approved for discard
14. Working with liquid nitrogen freezers
15. All other job-related duties that are deemed necessary in the laboratory.
Duties Performed: (Clerical or Administrative Duties)
1. STCL EMMES database data entry requirements
2. EPIC (clinical medical record used on-site)3. File Reviews required for laboratory batch records
4. Completion of quality control worksheets daily, weekly, monthly, etc
5. Filing of laboratory results in designated/secured file cabinets
6. Processing and testing of outgoing NMDP products including completion of CIBMTR data forms to meet deadlines
7. Processing and testing of incoming NMDP products for infusion
8. Processing and testing of allogeneic fresh products for infusion
Equipment Used:
1. Biological safety cabinets (BSC)2. 37°C water bath
3. Sysmex XN-450 hematology analyzer (or equivalent)
4. BacTAlert 3D Microbiology analyzer
5. 1-10 °C refrigerators
6.
-20°C freezers
7.
-80°C freezers
8. Cryomed controlled rate freezing chambers
9. LN2 vapor freezers
10. Light microscope
11. LN2 dry shippers (MVE, etc)
12. Sorvall RC3C Plus refrigerated centrifuge or equivalent
13. Mini-vortex
14. Sebra heat sealer
15. Sterile tubing welder
16. Pipets
17. Plasma extractor
18. Digital scale
19. Manual tubing stripper
20. Demand 128 label printer and labeling software (Digi Trax)
21. Cellometer
22. Miltenyi CliniMACS
23. Computers
24. REES Temperature…
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