Neuroscience and Immunology Intern- Summer 2025

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Candidate qualifications include:

• Specific knowledge and hands-on experience in the following areas are highly desirable but if not, training will be provided:
• Human primary cell culture, immune cell isolation from human whole blood/PBMC
• Cell-based assays: proliferation, cytokine assessment
• Flow cytometry: multicolor intracellular and surface staining
• Molecular Biology: DNA/RNA isolation, QPCR, Western blotting
• Bioanalytical assays: ELISA, Luminex, or MSD
• Laboratory equipment: flow cytometer, autoMACS, EnVision
• Good understanding of basic Immunology principles would be an advantage
• Highly proficient with computer software: Microsoft Office; GraphPad Prism, BD FACS Diva, Flow Jo experience a plus

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

Job Responsibilities:

The selected intern candidate will contribute to the discovery of drugs for treating neuroinflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The candidate will work collaboratively with a team of scientists to develop and conduct in vitro cell-based assays to further our understanding of human disease and evaluate the mechanism of action of potential drug candidates.

Responsibilities includes:

• Develop or conduct cell-based assays using human primary immune cells, neurons, or cell lines to support target validation, mechanism of action studies and drug discovery efforts
• Operate state of the art laboratory equipment such as Flow Cytometer, Luminex, MSD/ EnVision plate reader and QPCR-based expression platforms, as needed
• Conduct gene expression or protein analysis
• Analyze and interpret data and trouble-shoot experiments
• Record data accurately in Electronic Laboratory Notebook and maintain records per company policy and legal requirements. Prepare study protocols and reports per request
• Present findings in small team meetings and final PowerPoint presentation to the department
• Closely work with members in the RU N&I group to support departmental goals

Qualifications:

• Current college/university undergraduate/MS/PhD with a degree in Biology, preferably in Immunology, Neuroscience or Cell biology
• Required hands-on experience: Tissue culture/aseptic technique, ELISA, and assay setup including reagent calculations.

• mammalian cell cultures (6 months of experience is required)
• flow cytometry (6 months of experience is required)
• ELISA (6 months of experience is required)
• aseptic techniques (6 months of experience is required)

• Years of experience: 0 years
• Experience level: Entry Level

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