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Assistant Project Scientist
Position overview
Application Window
Open date: October 15, 2025
Next review date: Friday, Nov 14, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Friday, Nov 14, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.
Position description
The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has an immediate opening for an Assistant Project Scientist with expertise on lipid metabolism, genetics and mouse physiology. The candidate will primarily be responsible for investigating the role of cholesterol transporters in adipocyte lipid metabolism.
The successful candidate will participate in project design and management; develop and validate assays, protocols and platforms that fit in the general strategic objectives of the laboratory; develop SOPs, assays, and appropriate controls; train employees; compile and present experimental results to the project team; prepare publications and present experimental results at scientific meetings. He/she should be able to work collaboratively with other areas as part of an interdepartmental project team.
The applicant must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Molecular Biology, Genetics or Physiology and with an emphasis on metabolism, and must have 4+ years of experience in animal physiology, assessment of soluble analytes, and metabolic flux assays. Demonstrated assay development experience, research independence, and technical competence in mouse models of metabolism are desired. The candidate must have excellent communication, interpersonal skills and organizational skills.
Interested applicants, please apply via this link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10592
Qualifications
Ph.D. or equivalent
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Bibliography
Cover Letter
Statement of Research
UCLA Mission Statement - As the nation's premier public research university, UC's mission is the creation, dissemination, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. We have a particular responsibility to the people of the state of California which we express in the excellence of the education we provide, the impact of the research we do, the comprehensive, life-saving medical services we provide, and the public service mission we are devoted to. The University of California promotes the social mobility of its students, equips them with the tools and experience that furthers their ambitions, and regards their accomplishments across the life span as evidence of the profoundly positive impact of higher education.
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