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Biomedical Investigative Assistant

Akahi Associates/Kako'o Services, LLC·Honolulu, Hawaii

Full Time·On Site·0-2 yrs·Posted 1 month ago
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About the role

Provide scientific laboratory services and support for clinical trials, translational physiology, and microbiology studies. Responsibilities include specimen processing, performing in vitro and in vivo testing, and maintaining detailed research databases.

Overview Tripler Army Medical Center is looking for a Biomedical Investigative Assistant to provide scientific laboratory services and support for researchers and graduate medical education residents for the Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC), Honolulu, Hawaii.

Responsibilities

Clinical Trial Support Objectives:

  • To provide specimen collection and processing for clinical studies which evaluate new drugs and treatments or evaluate course of disease progression
  • To provide laboratory analyses for clinical studies which evaluate devices that improve readiness and military operational medicine - Clinical Trial Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:
  • Collect clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality as written in protocol
  • Process specimens as per specific assay requirements according to protocol
  • Store and keep track of specimens in catalogue freezer space until specimens ready for shipment to central laboratories for multisite studies
  • Summarize data in databases and prepare summary reports
  • Translational Physiology Support Objectives:
  • To develop and characterize models for promotion of Defense Health Readiness
  • To provide laboratory analyses for studies which address military priorities such as combat casualty care, wound healing, and transport medicine
  • To investigate therapeutic efficacy of novel molecular or cellular treatments that improve learning
  • Translational Physiology Study Services – Contract Personnel shall:
  • Provide input to laboratory and animal procedures, behavioral analysis, tissue harvesting and histological analysis, molecular and immunological assays, cell culture, and data analysis
  • Provide Combat Casualty Post-field Care studies: perform in vitro and in vivo testing of treatment strategy plans to control fluid and electrolyte balance; evaluate effects that mimic prolonged field care and transport medicine; and perform laboratory assays for biomarkers of ischemia and inflammation and hormonal regulation
  • Provide Wound Tissue Healing studies: evaluate biomarkers associated with acute lung injury; resistant wound healing in infected wounds, and stem cell effectiveness in reducing inflammatory injury and promoting tissue repair
  • Provide Gulf War Illness studies: evaluate experimental therapies for the treatment of Gulf War Illness by performing in vitro assays and in vivo testing in rodent models, to include development of an exosome-mediated drug delivery system, behavioral testing, and evaluating of possible toxic effects on cardiac and renal function
  • Microbiology Study Objectives:
  • To demonstrate the ability to identify molecular and protein biomarkers that detect distinct signatures of emerging infectious diseases
  • To characterize new methods for detecting and tracking antimicrobial resistance patterns
  • To identify more rapid diagnostic technologies to prescribe correct antibiotics for infected patients.
  • To provide infectious disease surveillance in the Pacific Region
  • Microbiology Study Support Services – Contract Personnel shall:
  • Collect and process clinical specimens and maintain patient confidentiality working with de-identified specimens
  • Analyze bacteria and virus infected specimens with different molecular assays and protein biomarker assays to compare
  • Evaluate unique DNA signatures and prevalence of antimicrobial resistant in clinical specimens
  • Contribute specimens and data to biobanks and analyze results for disease surveillance programs

Qualifications

Education:

A Biomedical Investigative Assistant must have met the educational requirements for a Bachelor’s degree in basic biomedical research field (to include, but not limited to biology, chemistry, zoology, microbiology) OR a minimum 1 year demonstrated experience in laboratory research.Experience:

Biomedical Investigative Assistant: Demonstrate experience in laboratory research to include laboratory course work at the collegiate level. Demonstrate laboratory research experience or work on clinical studies to include data collection and analyses.

Knowledge and experience in performing basic laboratory procedures to include but not limited to preparing chemical reagents, processing biological samples and specimens, data recording, experiment record keeping.

Understanding of methodology and design for research.

Knowledge and experience with laboratory benchwork.

Knowledge and experience with preparing data summaries and quality control lab tests.

Experience with performing data entry and graphics generation for scientific presentations.

Biomedical Investigative Assistant shall possess broad knowledge of computers and related software to include word processing, spreadsheet, data base management, statistical applications, and intranet and Internet connections and applications

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree in a basic biomedical research field or at least one year of demonstrated laboratory research experience. Candidates must be proficient in basic lab procedures, data recording, and the use of scientific software.

  • bachelor degree
  • Quality Control
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Entry
  • Specimen Collection
  • Clinical Trial Support
  • Laboratory Analysis
  • Microbiology
  • Cell Culture
  • Immunological Assays
  • Research Design
  • Molecular Assays
  • Histological Analysis

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
0-2 yrs
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted
Jun 22, 2026
Closes
Jun 22, 2027
Application
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Akahi Associates/Kako'o Services, LLC

Akahi Associates has handled hundreds of federal contracts with government agencies including the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Health Agency (DHA), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Akahi Associates has recruited and placed more than 1,200 Full-time...

Salary listed on 25 jobs
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypePrivately Held
Size201-500 employees
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