Research Associate

Pathos was founded to revolutionize precision medicine in cancer by harnessing the power of machine learning to transform drug development. Pathos aims to accelerate traditional oncology approaches based upon a comprehensive and integrated data-first strategy to discover and develop drugs for precise biological pathways. Pathos is currently pursuing co-development and in-licensing opportunities to build a portfolio of clinical stage oncology assets, applying its technology to find the right patients and indications, resulting in a highly improved probability of success and faster time to market.

The founding team built and scaled Tempus Labs, an AI-enabled diagnostics company that has built the world's largest library of clinical and molecular data and an operating system to make sense of it. Through this experience, the founders have seen how precision medicine can transform lives, yet many patients remain who need better therapies. A new approach is needed to change the paradigm of drug development to rapidly serve these unmet needs, highlighting a unique opportunity for Pathos to pursue. We're looking for other trailblazers who see the world differently and want to forge this new path with us.

Our team is distributed across the US with hubs in New York and Salt Lake. While we still operate with the agility of a startup, we are scaling to advance our platform.

About the role

We need a Research Associate to help us achieve several key objectives, including:

• Running manual and automated steps of a 3D tissue culture drug testing platform

• Patient sample processing including DNA/RNA extraction

• Performing general maintenance of lab and machinery

This person will be working in Salt Lake City.

Who you are:

• Ideal candidates will bring deep technical expertise in biology or biomedical engineering or related discipline. Bachelor of Science strongly preferred. Minimum - Associate's degree with significant and relevant lab experience

• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Work well as team player and independently

• Great at following instructions

• Have strong lab technique (pipetting, solutions prep, aseptic technique, etc.), attention to detail, and organization.

• Ability to adapt quickly in a fast paced, changing environment

• Excellent scientific reasoning and critical thinking skills

• Able to perform lab duties with minimal supervision after training

• Experience with tissue culture

• Experience with DNA/RNA extraction a plus

• Experience with automation also a plus