Senior Research Assistant, Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Senior Research Assistant, Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Introduction

Aga Khan University, chartered in 1983 as Pakistan's first private international university, is committed to the provision of education, research, and health care of international standards relevant to Pakistan and the region. The affiliated Aga Khan University Hospital provides state-of-the-art clinical facilities and well-equipped diagnostic services. The University currently has teaching sites in Pakistan, East Africa, the United Kingdom, and Afghanistan, and is a major component of the Aga Khan Development Network.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

The Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences strives to achieve excellence in both teaching and research. The development and expansion of educational and thematic research programmes in innovative and relevant basic and applied research will take AKU to the next level on the international scene while benefiting the specific health care needs of Pakistan.

The Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences invites applications for the position of Senior Research Assistant to work on the Swiss International sponsored project Ref No IZSTZO-202612/1 entitled “The genetics of congenital hypogonadism in Pakistan”.

This is a short-term grant-funded contractual position.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible to:

• provide assistance to the Principal Investigator in planning, managing and conducting the research project by determining the theoretical aspects of the problem and selecting appropriate methods of approach
• carry out field sampling of families with genetic disorders, conduct experiments, and devise instrumentation and techniques to record and collect test results
• tabulate and correlate research data and interpret the results
• prepare write-ups of results, manuscripts, presentations and research proposals
• provide assistance to students and laboratory staff in setting up and conducting laboratory sessions.

Requirements

You should have:

• an MSc or BS (four years) or equivalent degree in biomedical or biological sciences, preferably in human genetics, biotechnology or molecular biology, from an HEC-recognized or foreign university
• preferably one year of experience in sampling families with genetic disorders, pedigree construction, clinical history taking, and molecular biology techniques such as PCR, cell culture and molecular cloning
• working knowledge and skills in laboratory techniques
• the ability to multitask across several projects
• excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  
  Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.