Tucson, Arizona, United States
Works well under pressure. Self-motivated. Always strives for improvement and pays attention to detail. Excellent leadership qualities. Able to adapt to new work environments and situations.
Duties: - In charge of neural tumor bank collection/biorepository for HMRI. - Database maintenance. - Technical assistance for oncoslide project. - Tissue culture and IHC characterization of tissues. - Vibratome sectioning. - Processing, embedding, sectioning and routine staining.
Duties: - Performing small and large animal necropsy. - Processing, embedding, sectioning, routine staining of animal tissues. - Immunohistochemistry: including validation of markers for multiple species. - Freezing tissue samples. - Laser capture micro dissection for diverse research projects. - Equipment maintenance and services in the laboratory. - Training laboratory personal on the operation of histology equipment and general histology. - Maintaining laboratory supply inventory. - Writing histology related Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the laboratory. - Cell pellets preparation and processing. - Performing CBC tests, blood and Buffy coat smears.
Postdoctoral fellow of Dr. Nadarajah Vigneswaran. Duties: - Grossing of surgical specimens. - Collecting slides and pathology reports for study subjects. - Processing of brush biopsy samples. - Shipping of slides and frozen processed samples. - Performing of IHC staining for different research projects. - Immunofluoresce staining. - Photographing specimens and documenting data. - Obtaining consent form and PHI signatures for studies. - Translating research related documents from English to Spanish. - Directing and managing the overall research activities in the histology research core laboratory and training and supervising other scientific staff and students in laboratory techniques. - Working closely with scientists and pathologists to develop novel techniques to detect cancer and hypoxia related biomarkers and viral pathogens in human and animal tissue specimens.
- Accessioning and grossing of specimens. - Processing, embedding, sectioning, and routine staining of surgical and research specimens. - Embedding, sectioning and staining of frozen tissues. - Proficient in special stains, including Immuno-peroxidase and immunofluorescence staining. - Performing and documentation of equipment maintenance. - Filing tissue blocks and slides.