Scientist, Cancer Research

ICR is dedicated to solving some of the most difficult problems in aging and age-related disease, including cancer early detection and prevention.

With ICR, you'll get to:

• Contribute highly practical and readily translatable pan-cancer screening/early detection, diagnostic, prevention and therapeutic ideas
• Contribute to the development of novel personalized peptide and mRNA cancer vaccines
• Quantify and track cancer biomarkers, including CTCs, cfDNA, serum, plasma, and urine proteins, RNA, metabolites, driver-gene mutations, epigenetic modifications, etc
• Collaborate with ICR's Biomarkers Team to perform molecular and cellular cancer prevention screening assays, under a personalized medicine paradigm

Please apply if you have:

• A PhD, MD or both At least 5 years of pan-cancer research experience
• Current and in-depth knowledge of pan-cancer: screening, early detection, biomarkers, diagnostic prediction, genetics, prevention, and chemical and vaccine-therapeutics (practical and experimental)

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Expert knowledge and understanding of worldwide pan-cancer drug development pipelines
• Experience with cell-based assays, immunofluorescent microscopy, qPCR, flow cytometry, single-cell genomics, RNAseq, cell culture, organoid culture, Illumina NextSeq 550, DNA methylation sequencing, ddPCR, Luminex, clinical chemistry instrumentation, Kryptor, Access 2, robotic liquid handling (e.g. Tecan), Vortex, and DepArray
• Knowledge and experience in cutting-edge paradigms of immuno-oncology including cell therapies, CAR-T, peptide vaccines, RNA vaccines, dendritic cell vaccines, neo-antigen vaccines, clinical vaccine safety, T cell and antibody analysis of vaccine-induced immunogenicity, etc
• Experience with protein, RNA, and small metabolite cancer biomarker analysis

And you'll need:

• An easygoing, friendly personality
• The ability to work in the United States without sponsorship

Salary

Starting base pay range: $135,000/yr - $185,000/yr

Starting additional compensation range: $7,500/yr - $18,500/yr

Starting position title and compensation are commensurate with experience.