Histology Technician for F Hoffmann La Roche

We make it GmbH is a company operating nationally in Switzerland which thanks to many years of successful experience has a high level of expertise in the personnel services sector.

Its recruitment activities are focussed on the core areas of industry technology office/administration engineering pharmaceuticals and IT. We make it GmbH places the highest demands on quality ethics and discretion.

For our client the company F. Hoffmann La Roche based in Basel we are looking for a Histology Technician (m/f/d).

Background

In Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Organization (pRED) we believe the rapid advances in science technology digital and big data are our greatest opportunity to rethink how we tackle some of the worlds toughest unmet health care needs and to have an even more profound impact on patients and society. At pRED we are united by our mission to transform science into medicines. Together we create a culture defined by curiosity responsibility and humility where our amazing people are empowered and inspired to bring forward amazing innovation at speed. Within pRED the goal of the Institute of Human Biology (IHB) is to disrupt the traditional drug discovery process through innovative big and bold ideas focused on advancing our ability to use more predictive human model systems. You will work closely with an experienced histology technician to establish and adapt innovative tissue technologies to Human model systems at IHB. You will interact on a weekly basis with students and scientists developing those models. You will also collaborate with the other histology departments within pRED and share access to certain instruments.

The perfect candidate: The ideal candidate holds a degree in biology or a related field with at least 2 years of experience in pathology procedures and expertise in immunostaining and quantitative image analysis techniques. The person possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills speak at least B2level English and is an adaptable team player with a proactive problemsolving attitude. German language skills and experience in histological evaluation are advantageous.

Tasks

• Support the characterization of human model systems through robust and standardized pathology workflows
• Innovation of tissue based technologies applied to human model systems
• Working on histological evaluation; pathology procedures; immunostaining and quantitative image analysis techniques
• Coordinate among the IHB teams and with the PS Pathology chapter the tasks to be done and perform pathology related experiments (tissue processing sectioning staining imaging documentation).
• Working in the laboratory

Requirements

• You have a university degree BSc or MSc in biology or a life science discipline or an apprenticeship in biology/medical lab environment and justify a strong understanding of cell biology physiology and/or tissue engineering
• Min. 2 years of work experience with manual and automated pathology procedures: tissue processing (trimming dehydration embedding) sectioning (microtome/cryostat) clearing methods immunostaining (histology IHC IF) in situ hybridization scanning (brightfield and fluorescence) antigen retrieval (*****)
• Experience with histology evaluation is an asset (*****)
• Ability to design test and optimize multiplex IHC/IF stainings including on challenging samples (e.g. organoids and microfluidic chip formats) (*****)
• Manual and automated quantitative image analysis (ImageJ Imaris and/or HALO) (***)
• Excellent organization documentation and interpersonal skills (**)
• English min. B2; German is a plus
• Team player adaptable and flexible
• Selforganized proactive and problemsolving attitude

Nice to haves

• Confocal microscopy
• Spatial phenotyping
• 3D in vitro cell culture

Work hours

• Standard 40h/ Week

Are you interested

Then Mr Amstad looks forward to receiving your complete application documents (CV references and training certificates).

We look forward to hearing from you.