Research Associate in Histology

Beschreibung:
We make it GmbH is a nationally active company in Switzerland with a high level of competence in the field of personnel services thanks to many years of successful experience.

Concentration of placement activities on the core areas of industry, technology, office/administration, engineering, pharmaceuticals and IT. We make it GmbH places the highest demands on quality, ethics and discretion.

For our client, an international pharmaceutical company based in Schlieren, Zürich, we are looking for a Research Associate in Histology (LSB) (m/w/d).

Background:
Roche Innovation Center Zurich (Schlieren-Zurich), a 100 % affiliate of Roche Pharmaceuticals, is active
in the research, development and commercialization of new potent antibody-based products for the
treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease. We offer a stimulating and truly international environment.
To further strengthen our organization, we are looking for 2 research associates in Histology.

In this position you will join a highly motivated team devoted to cancer research. The team specializes in
histology support to the preclinical in vivo experiments aimed to test the efficacy of clinical drug

mouse. This person should be experienced with both lab work and analysis. To integrate into the team,
English is required.

Task and Responsibilites:

- Handling of automated tissue processor and paraffin auto embedder
- Frequent paraffin block preparation and sectioning
- Frozen cryostat sectioning
- Basic histology staining
- Immuno-histochemistry techniques: fluorescent and chemical dual labelling procedures
- Standard microscopy, confocal and scanner microscopy both Olympus and Ventana platform
- Good knowledge of tissue quantification software like Definiens, Halo and VisioPharm.
- Presentation of results to the team

You must have these qualifications:

- Education in Life Sciences (Bs, Ms or Apprenticeship with experience)
- Proven experience working in lab, preferably Histology
- Experience in mouse-handling and mice studies
- English speaker

Nice to haves:

- Laboratory experience in the following areas:

- Microtome sectioning
- Cryo-sectioning
- Standard and immuno-staining techniques
- Microscopy Scanner
- Graph-Pad Prism software

Work hours:

- Standard

Are you interested?