Description:
We are seeking a Research Assistant I to support the operations of the Lum Laboratory. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the smooth execution of clinical studies by assisting with research ethics board submissions and protocols, sample processing and preparation, and database maintenance. The candidate will collaborate with research staff, clinicians, and other partners to support the successful implementation of study activities.
In addition, the candidate will perform general laboratory duties, including ordering supplies, maintaining inventory, and assisting with experimental work in immunology, molecular biology, tissue culture, and metabolomics. The ideal candidate will demonstrate resourcefulness, accountability, and self-motivation, and will be effective in a collaborative team environment involving clinicians, researchers, and other health professionals. Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to proactively identify and solve problems are essential for success in this role.
What You’ll Do
- Under supervision, performs skilled routine laboratory work such as tissue culture preparation, specimen preparation and staining, applying biomarkers, chromatography, specialized use of microscope.
- Performs animal studies such as drug administration and treatment monitoring.
- Utilizes quantitative image analysis techniques to analyze histological and cytological specimens.
- Maintains cell lines.
- Performs computer data entry and prepares standard reports of study results.
- Participates in data analysis.
- Maintains and stores test materials and products.
- Maintains laboratory supplies and equipment.
Qualifications
- A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to completion of Grade 12, supplemented by recognized university level science courses; plus one (1) year of recent related experience in a research laboratory.
- Demonstrates a commitment to beginning and/or continuing their personal learning journey related to Indigenous-specific racism and dismantling systems of oppression, as well as addressing racism more broadly. Shows willingness to articulate and share their learning experiences to contribute to a culture of motivation and inspiration among peers.
- Demonstrates foundational knowledge of the social, economic, and political realities of settler-colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous peoples and equity-deserving groups within social and health contexts. Understands the impact of social determinants of health-on-health outcomes. Shows a commitment to learning about and upholding legislative obligations and provincial commitments outlined in foundational documents such as the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, the BC Human Rights Code, Anti-Racism Data Act, and the Distinctions Based Approach.