Biomedical Investigative Assistant

Overview

Location: Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, Hawaii

Pay rate: $18.00-$23.00 hr

Work Schedule: The Department of Clinical Investigation’s administrative customer service hours are 8:00 AM thru 5:00 PM Monday thru Friday (HST) excluding federal holidays

Benefits: PTO, Sick leave, holiday leave, Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short Term Disability

Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(K) matching with employee participation in 401(K) plan

Clinical Trial Support Objectives:

• To provide specimen collection and processing for clinical studies which evaluate new drugs and treatments or evaluate course of disease progression
• To provide laboratory analyses for clinical studies which evaluate devices that improve readiness and military operational medicine

Clinical Trial Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Collect clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality as written in protocol
• Process specimens as per specific assay requirements according to protocol
• Store and keep track of specimens in catalogue freezer space until specimens ready for shipment to central laboratories for multisite studies
• Summarize data in databases and prepare summary reports

Translational Physiology Support Objectives:

• To develop and characterize models for promotion of Defense Health Readiness
• To provide laboratory analyses for studies which address military priorities such as combat casualty care, wound healing, and transport medicine
• To investigate therapeutic efficacy of novel molecular or cellular treatments that improve learning

Translational Physiology Study Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Provide input to laboratory and animal procedures, behavioral analysis, tissue harvesting and histological analysis, molecular and immunological assays, cell culture, and data analysis
• Provide Combat Casualty Post-field Care studies: perform in vitro and in vivo testing of treatment strategy plans to control fluid and electrolyte balance; evaluate effects that mimic prolonged field care and transport medicine; and perform laboratory assays for biomarkers of ischemia and inflammation and hormonal regulation
• Provide Wound Tissue Healing studies: evaluate biomarkers associated with acute lung injury; resistant wound healing in infected wounds, and stem cell effectiveness in reducing inflammatory injury and promoting tissue repair
• Provide Gulf War Illness studies: evaluate experimental therapies for the treatment of Gulf War Illness by performing in vitro assays and in vivo testing in rodent models, to include development of an exosome-mediated drug delivery system, behavioral testing, and evaluating of possible toxic effects on cardiac and renal function

Microbiology Study Objectives:

• To demonstrate the ability to identify molecular and protein biomarkers that detect distinct signatures of emerging infectious diseases
• To characterize new methods for detecting and tracking antimicrobial resistance patterns
• To identify more rapid diagnostic technologies to prescribe correct antibiotics for infected patients
• To provide infectious disease surveillance in the Pacific Region

Microbiology Study Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:

• Collect and process clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality working with de-identified specimens
• Analyze bacteria and virus infected specimens with different molecular assays and protein biomarker assays to compare
• Evaluate unique DNA signatures and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant in clinical specimens
• Contribute specimens and data to biobanks and analyze results for disease surveillance programs

Degree: Bachelors degree in basic biomedical research field (to include, but not limited to biology, chemistry, zoology, microbiology) OR a minimum 1 year demonstrated experience in laboratory research.

Experience: Demonstrate experience in laboratory research to include laboratory course work at the collegiate level. Demonstrate laboratory research experience or work on clinical studies to include data collection and analyses. Knowledge and experience in performing basic laboratory procedures to…