Research Scientist – Naval Combat Casualty Care

Research Scientist – Naval Combat Casualty Care

Requirements

• PhD in related biophysics or related field plus two (2) years’ post-doctoral experience that includes at least one (1) year experience conducting research in Combat Casualty Care and Operational Medicine including biomedical systems engineering and evaluation, cellular and immune based adjunct for casualty care, and expeditionary and trauma medicine.
• Demonstrated ability and skill to prepare all aspects of professionally accepted scientific reports including methods, data interpretation, presentation, and significance of findings in relation to other findings by peers, and present effective oral presentations.
• Ability to use sound judgment in problem solving and excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversees contract personnel associated with research projects; manages research data.
• Provides expertise in development and conduct of protocol-driven scientific research addressing various aspects of military medicine, including hemorrhage and resuscitation, immunomodulation, biomedical systems, bioassay development, craniofacial, infectious diseases and directed energy bioeffects.
• Provides support in writing protocol-driven research proposals, animal use protocols, human use protocols, technical reports, final reports, and peer-reviewed manuscripts.
• Analyze and evaluate data sets.
• Develops various presentation materials and presents findings at technical and professional meetings.
• Prepares experimental subjects, set up experimental equipment, and aid in training and development of experimental subjects for experimental procedures.
• Provides support in development of establishment of in vivo and in vitro model systems, data acquisition, and data analysis.
• Performs surgical procedures on animal models for both survival and non-survival.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.