Histology Technician - m/w/d
In Roche's Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED), transformative medicines are made for patients to tackle some of the world's toughest unmet healthcare needs. To strengthen the histology department, we are looking for a
Histology Technician - m/w/d
Your tasks:
- Support the characterization of human model systems through robust and standardized pathology workflows
- Innovation of tissue based technologies applied to human model systems
- Working on histological evaluation; pathology procedures; immunostaining and quantitative image analysis techniques
- Coordinate among the IHB teams and with the PS Pathology chapter the tasks to be done and perform pathology related experiments (tissue processing, sectioning, staining, imaging, documentation).
- Working in the laboratory
Must Haves:
- You have a university degree, BSc or MSc, in biology or a life science discipline or an apprenticeship in biology/medical lab environment and justify a strong understanding of cell biology, physiology, and/or tissue engineering
- Min. 2 years of work experience with manual and automated pathology procedures: tissue processing (trimming, dehydration, embedding), sectioning (microtome/cryostat), clearing methods, immunostaining (histology, IHC, IF), in situ hybridization, scanning (brightfield and fluorescence), antigen retrieval
- Experience with histology evaluation is an asset
- Ability to design, test and optimize multiplex IHC/IF stainings including on challenging samples (e.g. organoids and microfluidic chip formats)
- Manual and automated quantitative image analysis (ImageJ, Imaris and/or HALO)
- Excellent organization, documentation and interpersonal skills
- English min. B2; German is a plus
Contact
Marta Castellano
Consultant
+41 44 225 41 13
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