# Senior Research Associate, Histology (Contract)

**Company**: Mirai Bio
**Location**: Cambridge, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $38 - $51
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Mirai Bio is seeking a Senior Research Associate, Histology contractor to join the Platform Group. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of laboratory research activities and significant hands-on experience with standard histology, cell culturing, and in vitro cell biology techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

- Perform laboratory assays and tasks including processing tissues for histology, plate-based reporter assays, and additional in vitro assays

- Review data slides to streamline optimization and data analysis of immune histochemistry and immunofluorescence readouts

- Help manage external vendors and CRO in support of histology assays

- Develop new assays or optimize existing ones based on in-depth knowledge of laboratory techniques

- Analyze and accurately document assay results in an electronic lab notebook or other technical reporting formats

Professional Experience & Qualifications:

- BS or MS in Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related scientific discipline

- BS + 5 years of relevant industry or research experience

- MS + 3 years of relevant industry or research experience

- Previous experience with histology evaluation and in vitro cell-based assays is required

- Strong cell culture experience, including experience executing protocols, troubleshooting assays is preferred

- Prior experience working with lipid nanoparticles is a plus

The salary range for this role is $38 - $51. Mirai Bio currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits, and a broad range of other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- histology
- cell culturing
- in vitro cell biology
- laboratory research

### Nice to have
- lipid nanoparticles
- cell culture experience
- troubleshooting assays

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