Description

Join our dynamic team at UCLA's Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory! We're on the lookout for a proactive Research Associate to play a pivotal role in managing and coordinating the logistical and administrative aspects of our groundbreaking research projects.

Responsibilities will encompass:

• Data retrieval, management, and curation across multiple neuroimaging studies

• Creation and organization of standard operation protocols.

• Develop, test, and maintain image processing pipelines

• Process both clinical and research-related neuroimaging datasets

• Conduct thorough literature reviews and provide crucial support for ongoing research endeavors.

Apply now if you're passionate about advancing neuroimaging research and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Salary: $28.04 - $45.11 hourlyQualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field such as Biomedical Physics, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related biological/physical science field.

• Working knowledge of modern, structured programming/scripting languages (MATLAB, Python, C++, etc.) and development tools.

• Experience in human and/or animal imaging using diffusion MRI, perfusion MRI, MR spectroscopy, CEST, or other imaging techniques.

• Knowledge of MR-related hardware, software, and analysis techniques.

• Experience in imaging data management.

• Be able to use dedicated pipelines for specific processing (e.g. Bash or python pipelines containing FSL, Freesurfer, AFNI, R, MATLAB, Osirix, or SPM scripts).

• Knowledge of Unix and Linux operating system.

• 1+ years experience in medical image processing, generating high quality multimodal neuroimages, and quantitative analysis.

• Experience with software source control (e.g. GIT, Subversion).

• Ability to use computer software for word processing, data tabulation, and graphing.

• Excellent communication skills to interact with other researchers, clinicians, technicians, and engineers.

• Demonstrated skill in problem solving, prioritizing assignments to complete work in a timely and efficient manner.

• Strong interpersonal skills for interaction to communicate diplomatically and effectively with faculty, peers, patients, physicians, collaborators, researchers, administrators, and University faculty and staff.

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