**Job Description**

**The Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, has an outstanding opportunity for a temporary Research Engineer 2 to join their team.**

**About this Opportunity**

Reporting to Dr. Ian Sweet, Research Associate Professor, the Research Engineer 2 is responsible for developing and optimizing in vitro fluidics instrumentation for research aimed at maintaining and assessing real-time tissue function in response to changes in dissolved, trace signaling gases (including O2, H2S, NO and CO). The methodologies are then applied to investigations of diabetic complications including retinopathy, nephropathy and islet dysfunction. This project is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Sweet laboratory and the laboratories of James Hurley (Biochemistry), John Kramlich (Dept of Mechanical Engineering) and James Hermanson (Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics).

Research Sponsors/Stakeholders: NIH, Helmsley Foundation, UW Dept...