Research Assistant

Neurology - 411801

Research Professionals

04/28/2026

05/01/2026

Temporary Staff (SHRA)

Research Assistant

20075665

S027228

Part-Time Temporary

20

North Carolina, US

$20.00 per hour

6 months not to exceed 11 months

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Under guidance from the Principal Investigator and Research Program Manager, the Research Technician will provide administrative and logistical support for federally awarded projects and activities for NIH-funded grants in the Department of Neurology (PI: Priya Palta). The Research Technician will work with multi-disciplinary team to assist with multiple projects investigating vascular contributions to age-related changes in cognitive and physical function, subclinical cerebrovascular disease, and dementia conducted in several large cardiovascular epidemiology cohorts, including, the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, the Jackson Heart Study, and the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. The candidate will gain research experience in cardiovascular epidemiology and neuroepidemiology with the opportunity to enhance skills in data collection, data entry, data analysis, and overall conduct of epidemiologic studies from the initial grant submission to scientific output.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist with administrative tasks related to developing research protocols, updating and developing standard operating procedures, and maintaining and revising study operations manuals and study forms.
• Assist with grant and manuscript submissions including formatting, bibliography, requests for letters of support, table or figure creation and/or formatting.
• Participate in study meetings and maintain meeting minutes.
• Contribute to development of lab website.
• Conduct data entry.
• Assist with IRB submissions and renewals.
• Conduct literature reviews and basic data analyses in STATA or related statistical software.
• Collaborate on scientific manuscripts and reports.
• Work closely with Dr. Palta’s Research Program Manager to manage all aspects of funded projects.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.