Are your hands the ones a lab trusts — the person whose replicates line up, whose cultures stay clean, and whose notes anyone could follow? Gordian’s discovery engine tests hundreds of targets at once, and every promising hit has to prove itself in real... Backed by Stanford.
About the role
Your primary mission as a Research Associate is to generate clean, reproducible data that the team can trust the first time. You will run our established protocols for RNA extraction and RT-qPCR, western blot, ELISA, and mammalian cell culture; run biomarker assays on plasma, serum, urine, tissue, and culture samples across our disease indications; and support ex vivo work: processing animal and human donor tissue and establishing primary cell cultures for target validation studies. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- An MS in life science
- Experience in biotech, pharma, or a CRO
- Handling human donor tissue under BSL-2, with bloodborne pathogen training
- Rodent tissue dissection and harvest
- Precision-cut tissue slices, organoids, or iPSC culture
- Multiplex biomarker platforms such as MSD, Luminex, or Simoa
More about this role
Your primary mission as a Research Associate is to generate clean, reproducible data that the team can trust the first time. You will run our established protocols for RNA extraction and RT-qPCR, western blot, ELISA, and mammalian cell culture; run biomarker assays on plasma, serum, urine, tissue, and culture samples across our disease indications; and support ex vivo work: processing animal and human donor tissue and establishing primary cell cultures for target validation studies. You will work closely with the scientists on our ex vivo team, who design the experiments; you make sure they are executed exactly as written. This role involves no live animal work; mouse tissue comes from our in vivo team. Weekend work is occasional and light, mainly keeping cultures healthy.
One thing to be clear about: this job is about execution, done exceptionally well. You will spend most of your day at the bench. You will not be asked to design studies or write protocols from scratch. What matters is that your technique is precise, that you follow SOPs with minimal guidance, that you notice when something looks wrong and say so, and that your notes let anyone see exactly what was done. People...
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