Rush University Medical School Work Values

Daily Duties at Rush University Medical School:

Responsibility: 1. Overall management of a retrovirology research laboratory including supervision of graduate students; training postdoctoral fellows and research technicians; generating hypotheses; designing experimental protocols; analyzing results; presenting research findings in scientific meetings; writing papers for publication; writing grant applications; and collaborating research with other investigators. 2. Teaching virology course and serving as a member in university administrative committees, for examples, Student Affairs Committee, Student Evaluation and Promotion Committee and Research Committee. 3. Served as an advisory member in doctoral thesis committees of graduate students.

What they like about Rush University Medical School:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Research Management, HIV/AIDS, Virologist, Immunologist, Program Officer, Project Leader, Method Development, Animal Models, Grant Proposals Review, PK/PD, Teaching/training expert, Manuscript writing, Health Science Administration, Drug efficacy evaluation, Cell based assays, Molecular Virology assays

Skills

Management of virology, immunology and HIV/AIDS R&D projects, Management of HIV/AIDS immunology research laboratory, Planning, designing, monitoring and evaluation of research projects, Supervision of graduate students, and training postdoctoral fellows/research technicians, Teaching virology/immunology courses to graduate students, Experience in evaluating, recommending, and facilitating implementation of new approaches and alternatives to address current or anticipated problems, New development, improvement and validation of nonhuman primate and humanized mouse models for genital transmission of HIV, Efficacy evaluation of HIV therapeutic, microbicide or vaccine in macaque models, Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, Ability to analyze data, make decisions and solve problems, Data analyses, writing manuscripts and data presentation in national/international meetings, Competent reviewer of virology, immunology and HIV/AIDS related grant proposals for NIH, WHO or other organizations , Organizing and conducting grant proposals review meetings and preparing summary statements , Manuscripts review for biomedical journals, Confident in cell based, molecular virology and immunology assays related to basic research and development of anti-virals or viral diagnostics, Development or optimization of laboratory assays including ELISA, immunochemistry, western blot, flow cytometry, PCR and various reporter assays, Isolation, identification and characterization of many different human/animal viruses, Preparation of viral antigens and production of high-titer antibodies in laboratory animals, Generation of stable cell lines and expression of recombinant proteins in cell cultures, Generation of stable cell lines and expression of recombinant proteins in cell cultures

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