Maywood, Illinois
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
San Antonio, Texas
Butner, North Carolina
New York, New York
Posted: 30-Oct-25
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Internal Number: 149636744
If you’re devoted to using your specialized clinical laboratory expertise to uncover the causes of diseases, you’ll find an exceptional home for your career at UCLA Health. Within our stimulating and supportive environment, you’ll collaborate with world-class clinicians while working with the latest in laboratory technology. If you’re looking to advance your career with one of the nation’s top health systems, we invite you to join us.
As a Clinical Laboratory Scientist of the Cell Therapy Lab, your job duties include:
- Process/cryopreserve bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for infusion
- Prepare samples for sterility, viability, and cell count testing
- Operate blood separation instruments and hematology analyzer
- Perform quality control tasks and computations
- Document equipment maintenance and quality control
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and perform minor repairs on lab equipment
- Prepare written reports and technical summaries
- Record/review data for accuracy, completeness, and suitability
- Handle clinical trial administrative responsibilities
- Follow and adapt to procedures/policies implemented by internal or External study sponsors on various clinical trials that may differ from
- standard operating procedures of BM/Stem cell laboratory.
- Must
- adhere to all defined processing and documentation requirements for the
- clinical trial.
Salary Range: $53.31-$71.04/hourly
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- Current and valid California Clinical Laboratory Scientist License
- Must be able to work after-hours, weekends, and holidays when required (rotating on-call)
- Experience in transfusion medicine, blood separation processes, and quality control/quality assurance.
- Knowledge and experience with microbiology procedures
- Ability to use MS Office programs, including Word and Excel
- Skill in practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to be used in making reagents and in performing calculations
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with outside services
- Ability to work under conditions of frequent interruptions, distractions, and heavy workload while maintaining equanimity, accuracy and productivity
- At least two years of recent experience performing testing in a clinical laboratory
- Knowledge of hematologic malignancies, stem cell transplants, and cellular therapies
- Recent demonstrated technical competence in cellular therapy product processing
- Experience with clinical trial processing and protocols
