Research assistant professor vs doctoral student

Differences between research assistant professor and doctoral student duties and responsibilities

Research assistant professor example responsibilities.

• Manage UW small animal MRI facility.
• Manage all aspects of HPLC method development and analysis through interpretation of data ensuring accuracy of results.
• Conduct basic and apply research on HIV immunology.
• Apply SAS and SPSS programming in a variety of research contexts.
• Key role in research group's NIH grant applications and long-term project planning.
• Develop python pipeline to analyze imaging data.
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Doctoral student example responsibilities.

• Manage multiple collaborative projects peripheral to dissertation that leverage experience in characterization and inorganic synthesis.
• Lead the in-vitro biophysical and biochemical characterization of homologous recombination and investigate structure-function effects of mutant enzymes.
• Used RT-PCR, ELISA, western blot, culture of establish cell lines, and immunohistochemistry.
• Apply NMR techniques to assess the effect of a health supplement on neurological changes in Alzheimer s disease.
• Analyze the molecular structures by NMR and FR-IR, determine the molecular weight and polymerization kinetics by GPC.
• Develop complex ELISA and western blot methods to study and characterize the host immune response to intracellular parasitism.
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