Salk Institute for Biological Studies

  Reporting to the President and serving as an integral member of the executive leadership team, the Vice President, External Relations (VP-ER) is responsible for the strategic vision and leadership of the development function, as well as all internal and external events at the Salk Institute. In close collaboration with the President, executive team colleagues, faculty, Board of Trustees, and other important stakeholders, this strategic development professional will further advance a robust, sustainable external relations operation and expand philanthropic capacity in anticipation of ongoing major fundraising campaigns and other innovations. Having successfully completed Salk's first major fundraising campaign to support scientific research, which secured $360 million in 2015, Salk is now in the quiet phase of a $500 million campaign to build the financial and scientific resources necessary to move Salk into the future. In the last decade, with an investment of...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY The Clinical Research Coordinator position will be working on all human studies in the Panda lab, with a focus on two major projects. The first is "Influence of time-restricted eating (TRE) on circadian regulation of glucose homeostasis and mitochondrial function in patients with Metabolic Syndrome." The second is "Optimizing circadian rhythms by regulating eating patterns to reduce cardiometabolic disease risk among firefighters." We are investigating the effect of time-restricted eating in improving health. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (80%) Clinical Study Data Collection   Participant recruitment Monitoring patient...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration.   POSITION SUMMARY Research Assistant II position will focus on protein and biochemistry. A successful candidate will work half of their time on independent projects and the other half on supporting postdoctoral researchers in the lab. The position will be responsible for establishing and utilizing protein expression systems (i.e., bacteria, insect cell and mammalian) and performing biochemical experiments. Position will be trained in specific techniques and methods in order to execute experiments that are broadly designed by post doc or PI and must be able to carry out and analyze experimental results independently. The overall goal of the...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY: Position available in the Hargreaves Lab for overall lab management duties in support of the Principal Investigator's (PI) studies. General lab maintenance duties include maintaining adequate inventory of materials and equipment to ensure adequate supplies for experimental needs, ordering supplies, taking inventory, upkeep and safety. Position is also responsible for performing various molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology techniques in support of lab and PI research goals. Range of duties include, but is not limited to: conducting procedures, modifying procedures as needed, data collection and analysis, tissue...

  Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY Reporting to Director, Licensing, Office of Technology Development (OTD), oversees intellectual property (IP) licensing of the portfolios within their IP docket at Salk. Directly maintains a docket of Salk investigators and, as needed, assists licensing personnel having primary responsibility for other Salk labs.  Responsible for all intellectual property arising from research performed by Salk investigators in their docket, including patented inventions, tangible research materials and copyright protected materials.  Builds personal relationships with faculty and scientific staff to provide training,...

  Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY The Director of Innovation Partnerships plays a critical role in enhancing Salk's research infrastructure, developing and maintaining academic and industry research partnerships, and broadly facilitating the translation of the wide-ranging scientific discoveries into commercial products and services that positively impact human health.  This position will report to the Senior Director, Office of Technology Development (OTD), and will have responsibility to (i) collaborate with faculty and research staff to maintain a broad understanding of all Salk science and its potential applications, (ii) source opportunities...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY Staff Researcher performs an integral role in the lab being a senior lab leader, helping to organize and manage research projects, facilitating and carrying out key instructive roles in research projects, and writing and submitting grants in support of the PI's and lab members' funding initiatives. They serve as a vital nexus between the lab scientists and the PI, with a particular emphasis on supporting grant submissions and management of grant milestones. They will be intimately involved in maintaining lab organization with the lab coordinator, budgeting and ordering, and data storage. They will also be responsible for design...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY Coordinate all aspects of human subject research studies from initiation through study closeout. Build and maintain relationships with sponsors, collaborators, and research staff. Prepare study-related documentation such as protocol worksheets, procedural manuals, adverse event reports, institutional review board documents, manual of operation, and progress reports. Maintain required records and ensure compliance with protocols, regulatory guidelines, and overall clinical objectives. Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding reporting of events to oversight agencies. Utilize project...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY: Position available in the Hargreaves Lab for overall lab management duties in support of the Principal Investigator's (PI) studies. General lab maintenance duties include maintaining adequate inventory of materials and equipment to ensure adequate supplies for experimental needs, ordering supplies, taking inventory, upkeep and safety. Position is also responsible for performing various molecular biology, biochemistry, and cell biology techniques in support of lab and PI research goals. Range of duties include, but is not limited to: conducting procedures, modifying procedures as needed, data collection and analysis, tissue...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY The Research Assistant III is responsible for select lab managerial duties in support of the Principal Investigator's (PI) studies along with performing and contributing to research on assigned projects within the lab.  Duties include establishing and performing independent research and analysis on projects that involve the study of human and murine B cells.  Flow cytometry, single cell sequencing, special proteomics and transcriptomics (training will be available), and various cellular and molecular biology techniques will be an essential part of this research. Murine models of cancer and immunology are heavily employed in the...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. ABOUT THE POSITION The Hollern Lab is seeking an individual who is passionate about science, cancer research, and helping people, is organized, and is comfortable executing protocols at the bench for the position of Lab Coordinator at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (San Diego) California. The main focus of the Hollern lab is to understand the immunological and molecular landscape of tumors with the goal of leveraging the immune component to promote anti-tumor responses. In more detail, the lab is particularly interested in developing these approaches through the study of B cells and T cells. These studies will be pursued...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY The purpose of the position is to provide technical and experimental support for ongoing research projects in the Molecular and Cell Biology laboratory supporting Dr. Gerald Shadel. The focus of this role will be of mitochondria and mtDNA in diseases, aging and the immune system. The position requires prior laboratory experience and proficient technical skills in molecular and cellular biology, genetics and biochemistry to assist in the execution of specific assays and design and troubleshooting of new experiments and protocols. Routine specific activities in the position will include mammalian cell culture and transfections...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration.   POSITION SUMMARY The Research Assistant II will perform routine to moderately complex laboratory procedures related to the use of human stem cells and somatic cell populations for disease modeling applications. This position will, in part, support human cell modeling needs associated with multiple research centers on campus, including centers focused on novel cell modeling approaches for aging and Alzheimer's disease. This position will involve the execution of standard laboratory procedures with human somatic cell and human pluripotent cell lines, as well as other experimental procedures. Duties include cell culture and cell/molecular...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY We are seeking a creative and motivated Research Assistant with strong experimental skills to support the development of novel cell therapy-based approaches for type 1 diabetes ( Nature, 586: 606-11, 2020). The role will focus on differentiation of iPSC/ESC to functionally active organoids, help streamline and establish a robust process and aid in the translation of this work to external partners. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (45%) Stem Cell Work Maintenance and differentiation of iPSC/ESC to functionally active organoids Preparation / maintenance of cell culture media, growth factors and reagents for stem cell work....

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. Job location is in Salk North (Torrey Pines) Position Summary: Position is responsible for the fiscal management and post award responsibilities as it pertains to complex fund management for various types of award mechanisms to include large multi-investigator projects, federal contracts, sponsored research agreements and gifts. Post award oversight and management of our federal contracts.  Detailed award review for compliance and reporting requirements.  Communicates with faculty and senior administration on FAR/DFAR topics as they relate to post award administration and ensures department is compliant.  Incumbent is expected to fully...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY Assist with general laboratory organization and maintenance, duties include but are not limited to, restock media, autoclave tubes, refill jars, dispose of boxes and waste, clean water bath, ensure inventory is maintained and make LB liquid medium and LB plates with antibiotics. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (100%) Research and Lab support Weaning, tagging, tailing and genotyping of mice. Prepare standard media and solutions. Perform weekly inventory of lab supplies. Stock and organize incoming lab supplies. EXPERIENCE Required: No professional experience required Experience with basic pipetting skills...

  Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY This position is responsible for routine processing of clean and soiled cages and accessories, maintenance and general janitorial duties in animal facilities, equipment maintenance, basic QA testing, processing deliveries from vendors and performing basic rodent husbandry tasks based on standard operating procedures and training to ensure compliance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the Animal Welfare Act and Regulations as well as all applicable federal, state, local and institutional laws, regulations, policies and guidelines. CLEAN AND SOILED CAGE WASH OPERATIONS 20-78% Cleans,...

  Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. Job location  is in Salk North (Torrey Pines) POSITION SUMMARY This position is responsible for processing bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll cycles.  This includes balancing all earnings and deduction totals.  Inspecting automated system output such as payroll registers and reports and determining and correcting out-of-balance conditions.  Supervision is received from the Payroll Senior Accountant who reviews the work for attainment of objectives and adherence to policy; however, the employee is expected to exercise considerable initiative and judgement in planning and carrying out assignments.  Works...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all position (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY The Research Assistant I position is responsible for performing gene sequencing techniques and general lab support.  Our laboratory works on many large-scale genomics projects and therefore has a considerable amount of automation involved in sequencing library construction.  This position requires much work with a robotic pipetting system to generate thousands of sequencing libraries each week.  Other duties include general laboratory maintenance, coordination with other labs and FACS core for cell sorting, participation in regular team meetings to discuss progress, and well-organized LIMS and data recording. Essential...

Application Instructions: Employment History Include your last ten (10) years of employment history, or length of your employment history if less, including all positions (even those that are not relevant to this position) and periods of unemployment. Incomplete information could disqualify you from further consideration. POSITION SUMMARY Under direction, position performs general tasks and competes routine assignments.  Receives assistance in the completion of more complex assignments.  Develops proficiency within discipline.  Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independence judgment.  Typically makes detailed observations. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (60%) Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Histology Techniques   Cryohistology (use of cryostat and immunostaining) (10%) Mouse Colony Handling and Maintenance Mouse husbandry Genotyping (ear tag, ear punch, genomic DNA preparation and PCR) (30%) Lab Support...