Opportunity Overview:
Join the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), a global leader in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, and contribute to innovative research focused on developing a new platform for vaccine testing. This role offers the opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment while advancing immunology, bioengineering, and tissue engineering technologies.
What You'll Do:
Participate in a research project focused on developing a new platform to enable the testing of vaccines.
Perform a variety of complex tasks including antigen uptake and presentation, immune cell activation and differentiation, and in vitro biological and functional tests for verification of tissue construct viability.
Conduct basic and advanced immunological protocols including antigen presentation, T and B cell activation, cell culture, and cell expansion.
Assemble 3D constructs using biofabrication techniques.
Collect, organize, and analyze research data.
Assist in the preparation of reports, scientific manuscripts, and other research-related documentation.
Work collaboratively within a team environment using established protocols and scientific procedures related to the production of tissue engineered constructs.
What You'll Bring:
Required
Ph. D. with a focus in biological, immunological, engineering, or biomedical engineering.
Experience in cell culture and immunology techniques.
Experience in antigen presentation, T cell and B cell activation, and differentiation.
Experience with development and testing of tissue engineering constructs.
General computer skills, including the use of Excel spreadsheets.
Attention to detail.
Excellent organizational skills.
Time management skills.
Excellent recordkeeping and documentation skills.
Preferred
Experience in biofabrication and tissue engineering technologies such as bioprinting for creation of tissue engineered constructs.
Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Materials Science background.
Immunology, engineering, and cell biology experience.
Work Environment:
The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is a world leader in the development of technologies and products in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. WFIRM is an interdisciplinary institute with a semi-open laboratory concept aimed at fostering collaboration across a variety of research areas. WFIRM occupies several floors in the Richard H. Dean Biomedical Building in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem.
