Kinderspital Zürich as an employer
Kinderspital Zürich is the largest university children's hospital in Switzerland with about 2,500 employees, and is one of the leading centres for paediatric and youth medicine in Europe. Although the hospital may be big, it's the little ones that count: up to 100,000 patients are cared for each year across 47 faculties, where we do everything in our power to ensure their well being. 'Kispi' not only offers cutting-edge devices and the highest quality of care, but also a good sense of interpersonal issues. Alongside its comprehensive range of paediatric medicine and surgery facilities, the children's hospital also offers a unique rehabilitation centre and a research centre.
Your responsibilities
- You assist the principal investigator in the planning and execution of research projects, grant proposals, publications, and manuscripts.
- You provide general supervision in the laboratory, including overseeing, mentoring, training and guiding technical staff, graduate students and others in laboratory procedures, data management and analysis.
- You share responsibilities for operation and maintenance of standard lab equipment, assist in the management of resource allocation, and facilitate the management of day-to-day activities in the laboratory such as purchasing, oversight of laboratory animals, radioactivity, and biosafety issues.
- You assist with writing and generating laboratory protocols including animal protocols, detailed records of laboratory work, results, and data analyses.
- You perform in vitro and vivo assays using DIPG preclinical models.
Your profile
- Minimum of a PhD in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, or a related field, or MD, PharmD is required
- Previous molecular biology laboratory research experience and familiarity with most of the techniques listed in the responsibilities
- Excellent communication skills and ability to synthesize research findings for presentation in both oral and written formats
- Proficiency handling mice is preferred though not required
Prof. Javad Nazarian
Head of research group
Javad.nazarian@kispi.uzh.ch