Sr Laboratory Specialist

Job Summary

Open Date 11/03/2025

Requisition Number PRN
43478B

Job Title Sr Laboratory Specialist

Working Title Sr Laboratory Specialist

Career Progression Track E

Track Level

FLSA Code Administrative

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

VP Area U of U Health - Academics

Department 00268 - Neurosurgery

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Pay Rate Range 39300 to 68300

Close Date 02/03/2026

Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time) 11/17/2025

This opportunity is a scientist position in Dr. Samuel Cheshier’s lab at Huntsman Cancer Institute that includes the organization, direction, and implementation of experiments, as well as lab management. You will conduct a wide range of experiments using some of the most advanced techniques available. We work in the field of macrophage immune therapy, targeted inhibition development, and precision medicine against pediatric and adult brain tumors.

Types of procedures performed include culturing mouse and human brain tumor cells and isolating human tumor and immune cells for both in vivo and in vitro experiments. A core responsibility will be the establishment and maintenance of mouse models of brain tumors and the conduct of therapeutic experiments on these mice using targeted inhibitors, immune therapies, and standard therapies such as irradiation.

Thus, significant experience working with mice is a critical requirement for this position. Our lab has taken our therapies into clinical trials, and your work here will lead to future trials involving adult and pediatric brain tumor patients. Flow cytometry, lentil-virus work, expression construct production, and DNA sequence and RNA expression analysis are also key components of our research.

Nearly Continuously:
Office environment.

Often:
Infectious disease, oils (there is air or skin exposure to oils or other cutting fluids), hazards (includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, or exposure to chemicals).

Nearly Continuously:
Hearing, listening, talking.

Often:
Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking, standing, sitting.

Seldom:
Bending, reaching overhead.

Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate scientific discipline or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience), plus four years of related full-time laboratory experience required. Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills also required.

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Type Benefited Staff

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at  for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions.

Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at  or  or University Human Resource Management at  if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a…