Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards Program Coordination - Support all activities related to Tribal Health Scholars - Cultivate relationships with regional tribes, higher education departments, high schools, tribal high school students, and tribal health clinics to ensure successful recruitment of and support for THS participants. - Deliver the THS curriculum through virtual...

- Performance of laboratory research with training in modern biomedical research concepts and techniques. Utilizes knowledge of specific scientific protocols to analyze, interpret, and/or make deductions based on data obtained through scientific experimentation. Writes reports and presents data based on findings from experiments conducted for assigned projects.  - Participation in journal clubs, lab meetings, graduate courses, skills enrichment, professional identity enrichment, and research papers. Maintains accurate records of experiments and analysis performed based on specific experiments for a given project, conducts literature searches, and maintains and up-to-date knowledge of all current methods of...

Clinical Trials Management - Responsible for assigned protocols administered through the Department. - Trial management duties include Site selection materials and processes, maintenance, and submission of patient data, analysis and evaluation of protocol activities, maintenance and preparation for quality assurance audits, and all other pre/post-award activities associated with the project not specifically assigned. - Act as liaison between the PI, External Research Sponsor, Clinical Research Organization, and Medical Monitors with external research. - Also includes all data collection, entry, and management on assigned studies. Patient Contact - Responsible for...

Subject enrollment & specimen collection: identifying and consenting participating patients; keeping detailed and accurate documentation of activities; extracting clinical data from patient records and documenting annotations in database(s). Review operating room schedules for surgical cases meeting of interest; work closely with surgical staff and pathologist assistants to obtain surgical tissue. Completed associated paperwork for all samples collected, including assigning unique accession number to samples. Process tissue according to BioLibrary procedures including use of dissection tools and chemical preservatives.

- Maintain a liver tumor database related to hepatocellular carcinoma and metastatic cancer. - Maintain a liver resection database for primary and metastatic liver. - Clinical Research Coordinator for Polyglycolic Acid Mesh to Prevent Pancreatic Fistula After Distal Pancreatectomy: A Multi-Center Efficacy Trial. - Work on additional data projects as they develop. - Assist in writing for grant support. - Prepare documentation for IRB submission and maintain IRB approval in a current state. - Assist with data retrieval and analysis for preparation of manuscripts and reports. - Work collaboratively with other researchers and faculty members in GI, radiology and medical oncology to maintain and utilize liver tumor database. - Other duties...

As a Clinical Research Assistant, this individual is responsible for clinical and administrative research activities related to ongoing clinical research in the PCCNRP under supervision of Drs. Cydni Williams, Trevor Hall, and Amy Holley. As a Clinical Research Assistant 2 this individual will be heavily involved in phone/virtual, REDCap-based, and in-person assessment with study participants. This individual will assist with administrative tasks for the project, including consenting and scheduling of participant visits, administering neurocognitive assessments with the NIH Toolbox, creation of study documents, study...

We are seeking a part-time research assistant to assist with multiple ongoing clinical research studies in people with cancer. The individual in this position needs to be highly motivated and interested in being a key member of a research team studying the impact of cancer treatment and exercise on the health and survival of people with cancer. This person will work directly under the study project managers to assist in data entry, collection, sample retrieval, and data quality control.   In...

- Collection of electrophysiology datasets and assistance in development of experiments. - Provide documentation and reports of analysis for preparation of manuscripts, lab protocols, and grants. - Statistical analysis of electrophysiology datasets using MATLAB/Python. - Contribute to manuscript writing. - Participate in lab meetings and give work-in-progress presentations as needed. - Collection of clinical data for clinical research experiments.

The Community Research Associate / Data Projects Manager supports UCEDD programs and initiatives for people with disabilities. This role leads the coordination and logistics of Oregon’s National Core Indicators (NCI) project, ensuring timely implementation, stakeholder communication, and data reporting. The Community Research Associate / Data Projects Manager manages logistics for training programs, contributes to curriculum development, and helps support the UCEDD’s Summer Internship Program, including recruitment, scheduling, and daily operations. The position also supervises program staff to support effective implementation across projects. Through staff supervision, project management, and...

- Travel statewide to perform vision screenings using an electronic screening device for the Elks Preschool Vision Screening Program. Must be comfortable with technology and able to train Head Start staff to assist with vision screenings. This position may require overnight travel. It will also require the ability to work with a variety of people including preschool children. - Maintain accurate screening records.

Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards   - Microscopic and gross tissue dissection, preservation, processing, sectioning - DNA purification, genotyping, MaxiPreps, PCR reactions, western blotting - Design of experiments, preparation, interpretation and presentation of data - Immunohistochemical staining methods, western blotting -

Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards - Assist investigators with laboratory procedures under general supervision: preserve, propagate, and catalog human tumor tissues; prepare tissue for IF/IHC; isolate specific tumor regions (mouse and human tissue) by macrodissection; work with research animals to perform tissue isolations, survival transplant surgeries, monitoring, and drug testing; perform quantitative evaluation of IF images; perform therapeutic drug screens; data collection and data input with statistical evaluation. - Routine...

The Research Associate and/or Senior Research Associate is responsible for executing, and overseeing complex organoid experiments and developing functional assays to delineate mechanisms of human milk action on intestinal development and maturation. This involves generating neonatal patient-derived intestinal organoids (enteroids) from surgical tissue samples. Cultivating enteroids requires keen attention to detail and impecable sterile technique. The Senior Research Associate is also responsible for isolating human milk extracellular vesicles via density-gradient ultracentrifugation, quantifying by Nanoparticle Tracking analysis, and running various downstream analyses or experiments including, qPCR,...

The Research Assistant is responsible for executing complex organoid experiments and helping to develop functional assays to delineate mechanisms of human milk action on intestinal development and maturation. This involves generating neonatal patient-derived intestinal organoids (enteroids) from surgical tissue samples. Cultivating enteroids requires keen attention to detail and impecable sterile technique. The Research Assistant is also responsible for isolating human milk extracellular vesicles via density-gradient ultracentrifugation, quantifying by Nanoparticle Tracking analysis, and running various downstream analyses or experiments including, qPCR, western blotting, immunostaining, imaging and cell...

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, under the direction of Dr. Marshall, has an opening for an organized, energetic and highly motivated full-time research assistant. The incumbent will provide research support for a number of faculty in the department with research needs, including being involved in helping set up research projects, doing data tracking and entry into databases, assisting with research-related administration, and supporting evaluation of data and publications of research projects. There may be the possibility of doing interviews with patients and families for ongoing quality assistance projects. There may also be the option to learn to use data visualization...

Isolate and culture cardiac myocytes and sympathetic neurons: Learn and perform protocols to culture sympathetic neurons, cardiac myocytes, and co-cultures for proximity labeling studies. Introduce DNA encoding the APEX-tagged SAP-97 construct into cultured myocytes for the proximity labeling studies. Work with the proteomics core to identify hits from the labeling.  Analysis of immune response: Carry out survival surgery in mice including implantation of minipumps. Assess physiological parameters including ECG and blood pressure. Isolate immune cells from hearts exposed to AngII hypertension (with and without drugs to promote nerve regeneration) and quantify immune cells by flow...

The Community Outreach Specialist (COS) will develop relationships with Black/African American communities in Oregon and SW Washington to raise the value of brain health and dementia research. The COS will network with community groups, churches, professional organizations and local leaders to promote recruitment and engagement of Black/African Americans in the research studies of the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The COS will help connect other underrepresented groups to Layton Center studies and will provide support for rural outreach. The COS will work closely with the Layton Center’s Outreach Recruitment and Engagement (ORE) Core and be guided by its...

- Assist with participant recruitment, participant payment (e.g., ClinCard) and tracking, and interface (e.g., answering questions, following up with non-responders). - Provide team with military-relevant information on the study population. - Assist with development and implementation of leadership training. - Develop materials such as packaged training materials and communications of findings for dissemination for multiple audiences. - Other duties as assigned.

- Conducting and analyzing scientific research, preparation of written reports  - Maintenance of lab equipment and facilities, training of staff and interns regarding protocols and procedures - Laboratory animal management  - Other general lab duties as assigned 

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with molecular biology research staff and work under the guidance of the Principal Investigator and a staff scientist.   Key responsibilities include: - Performing and optimizing high-throughput (epi)genomic assays—such as Micro-C, CUT&RUN, RNA-seq, and ATAC-seq—across multiple species and tissue types. - Analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data using established pipelines and open-source bioinformatics tools. - Integrating multi-omic datasets to advance the lab’s research on genome architecture and neurodevelopment. Additional responsibilities include contributing to...