Research Technician

The Opportunity:

AVANTOR Services offers a wide range of laboratory support services designed to save our customers time and money. These services range from centralised glass washing to research technician activities. However, they all share a central theme in supporting our customers and allowing them to recover valuable research time to increase the productivity of their labs.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Research Technician to join our service, providing technical support in the Cancer Research Horizons Functional Genomics Centre (FGC), a unique and equal collaboration between industry and academia, with the goal to identify novel targets and resistance mechanisms to create novel cancer medicines. To achieve this, the FGC is developing and applying advanced CRISPR/Cas technologies to perform genome-wide screens to interrogate gene function in the context of drug treatment to fully support the pre-clinical Oncology portfolio. The jobholder will mainly support the Functional Genomics team in performing routine genome-wide CRISPR screens and provide general support within both cell culture and molecular biology laboratories.

The successful candidate will report to the Avantor Research Services Team lead and will be task managed on a day-to-day basis within the client environment. This role is lab-based, focusing on the delivery of the FGC's technical support in accordance with Health and Safety a...