Job Title: Associate Scientist Neuroscience
Location: Tarrytown, NY
Type: Contract
Compensation: $38.00 - $45.00 per hour
Contractor Work Model: Onsite
Hours: 8 AM - 5 PM M-F

Responsibilities


+ Support preclinical research in the Neurotherapeutics area with a focus on Parkinson’s disease.

+ Design and execute experiments to understand mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, discover new therapeutic targets, and validate novel strategies.

+ Conduct in vitro and in vivo studies involving handling live rodents for behavioral testing, injections, surgeries, and sample collection and processing.

+ Characterize collected samples using biochemical, molecular, and immune-based assays at the bench, and develop in vitro assays.

+ Plan, initiate, and complete in vivo assays including cell line maintenance, in vitro experiments, behavioral tests, injections, rodent surgeries, and sample collections.

+ Perform b...