Research Technician - Olby Lab

The Department of Clinical Sciences has 60 faculty members, 59 residents, interns, and post-doctoral fellows, 23 graduate students, and 24 research technicians and 3 administrative staff. The department provides learning opportunities within the four-year veterinary curriculum (educational information) and through continuing education for practitioners. Within the Veterinary Health Complex, faculty and staff provide care for patients, teach veterinary students, and provide advanced training for interns and residents.

Faculty are very active in research programs to improve the health and welfare of animals and people. The Comparative Biomedical Sciences graduate program allows graduate students to focus their research in the areas of cell biology, infectious diseases, pharmacology, pathology, and population medicine. Other graduate programs with which departmental faculty are affiliated include programs in immunology, physiology, toxicology and functional genomics. Faculty are also involved with the Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology graduate program.

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The Translational Research in Pain team is seeking a Research Technician who is passionate about advancing pain management through innovative clinical and basic research. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful studies that improve pain assessment and treatment approaches in veterinary medicine while working alongside an interdisciplinary research team in a collaborative laboratory environment.

In this role, you will support scientifically rigorous research activities across the Gait Lab, Lascelles RB Lab, and the Lascelles/Mishra Rodent Behavior Suite while gaining hands-on experience in clinical research, laboratory techniques, patient care activities, and data analysis. Additionally, you get to work closely with an interdisciplinary research team to help advance translational pain research and contribute to studies focused on improving pain assessment and treatment approaches in veterinary medicine.

If you are excited by the opportunity to contribute to innovative pain research, enjoy working in a collaborative clinical and laboratory environment, and are eager to build hands-on experience in translational veterinary research, we encourage you to apply.

In addition to the core responsibilities of this role, there will be additional duties to assist with listed below:

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

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