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Academic Research Scientist in Cancer and Kidney Biology Hong Lab

The Hong Lab (www.thehonglab.org) is seeking a highly-motivated research scientist to join a team of scientists using functional genomics to study the development and consequences of abnormal development in the kidney, identify new biology and therapeutic targets in childhood and young adult kidney/brain cancers. These include Wilms Tumor and cancers involving the SWI/SNF chromatin modifying complex such as Renal Medullary Carcinoma, Rhabdoid Tumor and Atypical Teratoid/ Rhabdoid Tumor. 

Our research laboratory is housed within the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in the Health Science Research Building. Scientists will have access to resources within the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, the Winship Cancer Institute, the Pediatric Research Alliance along with collaborators at Georgia Institute of Technology. Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to observe the clinical aspects of pediatric oncology to understand the impact of our work on our patients.

Under minimal supervision, the Assistant Academic Research Scientist performs a wide range of highly technical and complex tasks necessary to advance basic and/or translational research programs.

KEY RESPONSIBIITIES:

• Responsible for working with experimental platforms specific to the hiring Program.
• Duties will include but are not limited to experimental design, data analysis, and interpretation and communication of results of basic and/or translational research.
• Will be required to review literature and apply advanced knowledge, skills, and input necessary for protocol development.
• May assist in grant and other funding applications, as necessary and appropriate.
• Performs other responsibilities as required.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• Depending on level of contribution, this individual will have significant authorship on publications and be expected to advanced knowledge and expertise of laboratory and experimental platforms.
• Staff Scientists will have leadership responsibilities and will oversee quality and training of other team members (e.g., undergraduates to masters and PhD candidates to postdoctoral fellows).
• Duties include designing, developing and conducting research experiments.
• The applicant will have or will develop expert knowledge and skills that span murine studies to laboratory work to computational biology.
• The applicant will assist in grant and other funding applications as necessary and appropriate, or with approval of the responsible faculty director, may have their own research projects and/or have full responsibilities for specific areas of a program.
• With approval of the leading Emory faculty member a Scientist may be the principal investigator on grant proposals.
• Funding for this position has been secured and will come initially from grants and institutional funds.
• Summary of the Mentor:
  • Dr. Hong is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics with an Endowed Investigatorship focused on the study of high-risk childhood kidney and brain cancers.
  • He was previously on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.
  • He completed his post-graduate and post-doctoral training at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
  • His mentorship style is to meet weekly with trainees.
  • This will be through a mix of giving presentations, meeting with donors, learning how to write grants, identifying independent research projects, writing manuscripts together as well as training recent college graduates along with undergraduate and graduate students.
• Summary of the Environment:
  
  • Located in Atlanta, Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals in the common mission of conquering cancer in children and young adults.
  • Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrows’ physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Research Alliance.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD
• OR Master's degree and two years of professional level experience in a technical or research lab .
• OR Bachelor's degree and four years of professional level experience in a technical or research lab.
• Laboratory experience should be related to area of assignment.
• Internship experience or experience prior to attaining the qualifying degree is not considered eligible work experience for this job classification.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• A minimum of a Doctoral degree (PhD, MD, MD/PhD or equivalent) is required, preferably in Developmental Biology, Computational Biology/Data Sciences, Genetics and Molecular Biology or Cancer Biology and 2+ years of postdoctoral experience.
• The candidate should possess strong interpersonal communication and analytical skills with written and oral fluency in English.
• Further, the ideal candidate will be motivated, detailed, goal-oriented and possess excellent organizational skills.

NOTE: Position tasks are required to be performed in-person at an Emory University location; working remote is not an option. Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.

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