Lab Manager - Cancer Center

Position: Lab Manager - Cancer Center - 141525
Location: Northern

# Lab Manager - Cancer Center - 141525UC San Diego/UC San Diego Health
· San Diego, CAFULL-TIME Posted Sep 23, 2026##

Job Description Payroll

Title:

SRA 3 Department:  CANCER CENTER Hiring Pay Scale  $75,448.50 - $95,722.28 / Year Worksite:  Moores Cancer Center Appointment Type:  Career Appointment Percent:  100% Union:  RX Contract Total Openings:  1

Work Schedule:

Days, 8-Hour Shifts, Monday-Friday    #141525 Lab Manager
- Cancer Center  Filing Deadline:
Tue 10/6/2026  Apply Now    UC San Diego values and welcomes people from all backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of our team, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply.
UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment:
Apply by 09/25/2026 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor.  Reassignment Applicants:
Eligible Reassignment clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.
DESCRIPTION  The Moores Cancer Center (MCC) is one of just 57 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States and the only one in San Diego County. As a consortium cancer center, it is a collaborative partnership between the UCSD: encompassing 28 departments, 6 schools School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health, Jacobs School of Engineering, School of Biological Sciences & the School of Physical Sciences), UCSD Health oncology hospitals and clinics;

the basic and public health research and outreach of San Diego State University (SDSU), and the basic and translational research of the La Jolla Institute of Immunology (LJI). These various programs and units are all dedicated to fulfilling the Moores Cancer Center's mission of reducing cancer's burden. As such, it ranks among the top centers in the nation conducting the continuum of cancer research, providing advanced patient care, and serving the community through outreach and education programs.

As a top-ranking, future-oriented organization, we offer challenging career opportunities in a fast-paced and innovative environment. Moores Cancer Center follows a progressive philosophy of career-path development for its employees including opportunities for cross-training, professional development, and progressive responsibility.  MCC's mission is to transform cancer care in our catchment area and beyond by driving exceptional scientific discoveries and innovations in prevention, detection, care, and training.

MCC will make a global impact on improving health by reducing cancer burden through accelerateddiscovery and translation, compassionate and interdisciplinary care, education and community engagement, with the foundation of our core values
- Excellence, Innovation and Risk-Taking, Collaboration, Diversity and Service.  Independently design, perform and analyze experiments directed at developing novel protein-based cancer chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of cancers. This includes: a) design and construction of novel types of vectors for cellular engineering; b) development of novel techniques for the production of proteins in human cell systems, and selection of stable clones;

c) creation of complex chromatographic systems to develop better ways to purify proteins from cell supernates or lysates; d) interpretation of analytic tools for the characterization of novel proteins including HPLC, FPLC, FACS, IHC and ICC and interpretation of results; e) development of cellular and molecular biology techniques to characterize the pharmacodynamics of drugs such as in vitro cytotoxicity assays;

f) independently design and manage…