Biomedical Technologist

Part time

Tripler Army Medical Center is looking for a Biomedical Technologist to provide scientific laboratory services and support for researchers and graduate medical education residents for the Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Salary
: $49000

5.3.1. General Technical Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:
Consult with PI on specimen collection, data quality control, the interpretation of data, manuscript preparation, advising on data analysis and equipment,production and submission of required reports, and completion of scholarly manuscript for publication after appropriate scientific, Operation Security, and Public Affairs reviews are obtained and approved.
5.3.2. Clinical Trial Support Objectives:
5.3.2.1. To provide specimen collection and processing for clinical studies which evaluate new drugs and treatments or evaluate course of disease progression
5.3.2.2. To provide laboratory analyses for clinical studies which evaluate devices that improve readiness and military operational medicine
5.3.2.3. Clinical Trial Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:
5.3.2.3.1. Collect clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality as written in protocol
5.3.2.3.2.Process specimens as per specific assay requirements according to protocol
5.3.2.3.3. Store and keep track of specimens in catalogue freezer space until specimens ready for shipment to central laboratories for multisite studies
5.3.2.3.4. Summarize data in databases and prepare summary reports
5.3.3. Translational Physiology Support Objectives:
5.3.3.1. To develop and characterize models for promotion of Defense Health Readiness
5.3.3.2. To provide laboratory analyses for studies which address military priorities such as combat casualty care, wound healing, and transport medicine
5.3.3.3. To investigate therapeutic efficacy of novel molecular or cellular treatments that improve learning
5.3.3.4. Translational Physiology Study Services – Contract Personnel shall: 5.3.3.4.1. Provide input to laboratory and animal procedures, behavioral analysis, tissue harvesting and histologicalanalysis, molecular and immunological assays, cell culture, and data analysis
5.3.3.4.2. Provide Combat Casualty Post-field Care studies: perform in vitro and in vivo testing of treatment strategy plans to control fluid and electrolyte balance; evaluate effects that mimic prolonged field care and transport medicine; and perform laboratory assays for biomarkers of ischemia and inflammation and hormonal regulation
5.3.3.4.3. Provide Wound Tissue Healing studies: evaluate biomarkers associated with acute lung injury; resistant wound healing in infected wounds, and stem cell effectiveness in reducing inflammatory injury and promoting tissue repair
5.3.3.4.4 Provide Gulf War Illness studies: evaluate experimental therapies for the treatment of Gulf War Illness by performing in vitro assays and in vivo testing in rodent models, to include development of an exosome-mediated drug delivery system, behavioral testing, and evaluating of possible toxic effects on cardiac and renal function
5.3.4. Microbiology Study Objectives:
5.3.4.1. To demonstrate the ability to identify molecular and protein biomarkers that detect distinct signatures of emerging infectious diseases
5.3.4.2. To characterize new methods for detecting and tracking antimicrobial resistance patterns
5.3.4.3. To identify more rapid diagnostic technologies to prescribe correct antibiotics for infected patients.
5.3.4.4. To provide infectious disease surveillance in the Pacific Region
5.3.4.5. Microbiology Study Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:
5.3.4.5.1. Collect and process clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality…