Research Officer II

Research Officer

We are looking for a highly motivated individual who have a strong desire and passion to search for and validate novel molecular targets, biomarkers and therapeutic pre-drugs in multiple in vitro and in vivo disease models against neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease and other human neurodegenerative disorder in our Translational Therapeutics Laboratory of National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore.

The successful candidate will be recruited to perform challenging and interesting molecular and cellular translational neuroscience research on human neurodegenerative diseases.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Animal Science or related fields.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the research industry.
• Experience with cell culture and transfection skill, Western blot analysis, real time quantitative RT-PCR and confocal microscopy techniques. Candidates with miRNA, stem cell and neuroscience research experience will be an advantage.
• Good communications and interpersonal skills.
• Good MS office and statistics skills.