Laboratory Technician

VHIR offers a vacant position for a laboratory technician with experience in experimental animal models for the Nephrology and Transplantation Research Group.

Main responsibilities and duties:

• Performance of heart transplantation in mice, and follow-up.
• Performance of skin transplantation in mice, and follow-up.
• Product administration, blood sample collection, welfare monitoring, and sacrifice.
• Harvesting and processing (either fixing or isolation of cells) organs and tissues.
• Manage sample processing (blood, spleen, and bone marrow from both humans and animals).
• Generate and manage sample databases.
• She or he will be trained to perform immune monitoring assays such as T-cell and B-cell ELISPOT assay and ELISA. Flow cytometry and PCR techniques will also be taught and will be required at the laboratory.
• Collaborate with the organization/design of experimental work.
• Give support in basic laboratory tasks.

Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain