Henrich Lab - Assistant Professional Researcher

Position Description

The Henrich Lab is now recruiting for an Assistant Professional Researcher. The general responsibilities of this position are to carry out research in the area of HIV reservoirs and curative strategies in the context of treated HIV disease, SARS-CoV-2 and other chronic viral infectious disease, and develop and implement novel analytical pipelines for multi-omic digital spatial profiling, mGNS, and proteomic analyses.

Responsibilities include writing grants, devising appropriate research strategies, designing and carrying out experiments, interpreting data, reporting results to internal and external audiences, and preparing scholarly papers for peer-review. As a relatively senior member of the lab, the individual will also provide leadership and mentoring to younger trainees and those under their supervision. The researcher will independently operate, troubleshoot, and analyze data from the GeoMX and Xenium DSP platforms, Olink and MSD proteomics platforms, and develop R-based tools for multi-omic spatial analyses as well as real-time qPCR, RNA probe hybridization platforms, RNAscope/miFISH.

• PhD or equivalent degree in biomedical sciences or related field.
• At least 1 year of post-doctoral training/fellowship experience.
• Experience with R programming for DEG analyses on bulk, single-cell, GeoMX and Xenium DSP.
• Experience with RNAscope assays and interpretation.
• Experience with Olink proteomic analyses.
• Experience with MSD proteomic platform assay design, implementation and analysis.
• Experience with BSL-2 tissue culture and tissue processing.

• Working with HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 infected tissues.
• Experience in infectious disease host-response and antibody/immune response profiling.

• Curriculum Vitae – must clearly list current and/or pending qualifications (e.g., board eligibility/certification, medical licensure, etc.).
• Cover Letter
• Statement of Research
• Statement of Teaching (Optional)

• 2-4 required references (contact information only).

Salary range: $93,400-$122,100.

San Francisco, CA

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. UCSF is committed to welcoming and serving all people, honoring the dignity of every individual without preference or prejudice, in support of its public mission and in alignment with its PRIDE values and Principles of Community.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.