Career Center

The Precision Pathology Biobanking Center (PPBC) is a newly established research center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A central pillar of the Center is the collection, database annotation, and banking of human biospecimens. Our team of biobanking professionals procures surgical and biopsy research samples from over 8,000 patients per year. Our samples are a key prerequisite for high-impact cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical trial research at MSK. We are looking to recruit highly motivated Senior Research Technician to join our active high-volume tissue and body fluid biobanking team.

We are especially interested in recruiting experienced technicians with prior hands-on laboratory experience and good familiarity with laboratory equipment. Knowledge of anatomy/physiology and experience with medical records is preferred but not required.

You will:

• Process specimens in timely fashion and following specific SOP and individual protocol requirements
• Assist the gross room supervisor in triage and harvesting protocol cases
• Work with surgical pathology prosecting teams to procure tissue
• Review daily Operating Room schedule and flags appropriate protocol cases
• Enter and maintain data in biospecimen databases
• Help develop novel protocols for rapid, high-quality specimen procurement
• Independently designs, plans, and sets up new protocols for biospecimen collection and processing
• Participate in Center Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement activities
• Work with the Centers IT team to improve and implement biobanking software solutions
• Use database tools to query and retrieve inventory
• Work well in a large team and communicates well

You have:

• Bachelor or Masters in relevant scientific field (biochemistry, molecular biology, premed, pharmacology, anatomy/physiology, or related fields) with at least 5 years of work experience in a biological laboratory environment. Knowledge of anatomy/physiology and experience with medical records is a plus.
• Comfortable with computer use (especially databases); some coding/programming experience/interest and interest in biostatistics/bioinformatics would be ideal.
• Formal licensing as a clinical technician is not required.#