Research Fellow - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)

1st Shift

Join the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), a global leader in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, and contribute to innovative research focused on developing a new platform for vaccine testing. This role offers the opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment while advancing immunology, bioengineering, and tissue engineering technologies.

• →Participate in a research project focused on developing a new platform to enable the testing of vaccines.
• →Perform a variety of complex tasks including antigen uptake and presentation, immune cell activation and differentiation, and in vitro biological and functional tests for verification of tissue construct viability.
• →Conduct basic and advanced immunological protocols including antigen presentation, T and B cell activation, cell culture, and cell expansion.
• →Assemble 3D constructs using biofabrication techniques.
• →Collect, organize, and analyze research data.
• →Assist in the preparation of reports, scientific manuscripts, and other research-related documentation.
• →Work collaboratively within a team environment using established protocols and scientific procedures related to the production of tissue engineered constructs.

• Ph.D. with a focus in biological, immunological, engineering, or biomedical engineering.
• Experience in cell culture and immunology techniques.
• Experience in antigen presentation, T cell and B cell activation, and differentiation.
• Experience with development and testing of tissue engineering constructs.
• General computer skills, including the use of Excel spreadsheets.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Time management skills.
• Excellent recordkeeping and documentation skills.

• Experience in biofabrication and tissue engineering technologies such as bioprinting for creation of tissue engineered constructs.
• Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, or Materials Science background.
• Immunology, engineering, and cell biology experience.

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is a world leader in the development of technologies and products in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. WFIRM is an interdisciplinary institute with a semi-open laboratory concept aimed at fostering collaboration across a variety of research areas. WFIRM occupies several floors in the Richard H. Dean Biomedical Building in the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem.

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