Laboratory Technician

Date Posted: 04/01/2025
Req ID: 42354
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Faculty of Pharmacy
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00057785

About us:

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is Canada's top faculty of pharmacy and ranked among the top in the world. We bring together Canada's leading scientists, researchers, and educators in the heart of Toronto's innovation and health research ecosystem. We advance professional pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical science through world-leading education and research and are recognized worldwide for our outstanding scholarship, ingenuity, creativity, and impact.

Our faculty, students, staff, and alumni come together to create a vibrant, collaborative environment rich with possibilities. We are at the forefront of redefining pharmacy's impact in health care and developing the capacity of pharmaceutical science to pinpoint better therapeutic targets, create new ways of building medications, and ensure medication use is safe and effective. We are committed to achieving inclusive excellence and fostering an environment where each member of our community can achieve their full potential.

Learn more: www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca

Your opportunity:

The Allen lab is dedicated to developing medical solutions for a range of acute and chronic indications through pioneering innovations in drug delivery. The studies in the Allen lab extend from materials synthesis to formulation preparation and in vitro, and in vivo preclinical evaluation.

The candidate will play a critical role in supporting and conducting the preclinical evaluation of novel drug formulations. This will involve designing and executing pharmacokinetic studies to assess drug disposition following administration, as well as developing and employing analytical assays to quantify drug concentrations in biological samples. The candidate will report directly to Professor Christine Allen and collaborate closely with other members of the Allen lab.

The successful candidate should have experience in HPLC analysis of drugs in biological samples and conducting pre-clinical animal studies, in particular, pharmacokinetics studies.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Recording and tabulating experiment results
• Analyzing and interpreting experimental data
• Preparing draft statistical reports and summaries from data collected
• Applying established standards when providing animal care
• Analyzing data collected for publications and/or presentations use
• Coordinating tasks for projects and other strategic initiatives with stakeholders
• Reviewing and assessing requirements needed to meet project timelines
• Informing Principal Investigator of concerns or setbacks

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in pharmaceutical chemistry or a related field.
• Minimum two years of experience conducting pre-clinical research in a laboratory setting.
• Demonstrated expertise with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) methods, especially for quantifying drugs in biological matrices.
• Experience developing and validating analytical methods for drug quantification in plasma, tissues, and other biological samples.
• Previous experience maintaining accurate documentation, including detailed protocols and SOPs for preclinical studies.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and data management skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, demonstrated ability to work in multidisciplinary research teams.
• Capacity to independently design, execute, troubleshoot, and optimize experimental protocols.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Hands-on experience performing pharmacokinetic (PK) studies in preclinical animal models.
• Proven track record in handling and analyzing complex biological samples collected during animal studies.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Diligent
• Efficient
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Responsible
• Team player

Notes:

• This is a term position for one (1) year.

Closing Date: 04/14/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Grant - Term. This is a term position for one (1) year.
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 09 -- $66,715. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $85,319. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Research Administration & Teaching

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.