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Term of the Position:
October 1, 2009 September 31, 2011.
Position Description: The Resource Navigator position confers the
research title of Research Associate and is a non-ladder academic
appointment.
Compensation: Resource Navigator salaries will be around $70,000 annually
plus benefits.
Overview of the Project: Networking Research Resources Across America
On May 1, 2009, the National Institutes of Health issued a request for
proposal, inviting applications designed to develop, enhance, or extend
infrastructure for connecting resources to facilitate national discovery
of scientific resources by scientists and students to encourage
interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific exchange. Resource
Navigators will collect and inventory the research resources by visiting
laboratories, core facilities, shared resource centers, and central
offices in person and through online searches to generate the raw data
needed to create a comprehensive research resource inventory. Harvard
Catalyst | CTSC will lead eight institutions of different sizes,
geographical location, and culture to build and implement a federated
national informatics network that will allow any investigator across
America to discover research resources that are presently invisible. This
project is directed by Principal Investigator Lee M. Nadler, MD, Harvard
Medical School Dean for Clinical and Translational Research. The team,
named Networking Research Resources Across America, includes Dartmouth
College, Harvard University, Jackson State University, Morehouse School
of Medicine, Montana State University, Oregon Health & Science
University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Hawaii Manoa,
and University of Puerto Rico. By the end of the two-year funding period,
the project will deliver to the NIH: 1) nine sites capable of
independently discovering invisible research resources as well as
maintaining and updating their own research resource inventory, 2) a
local inventory management system that will be the backbone of a
federated network yet will permit individual sites to control their own
data, 3) a simple, user-friendly, comprehensive data query system that
will permit anyone to search all the federated network sites for research
resources, 4) comprehensive reports assessing the quality and impact of
the system, and 5) a method to add new sites to the federated network. To
accomplish this goal, the project team will: 1) Build an inventory
management and data inquiry system that will be installed at each site,
2) Establish nine geographically dispersed onsite teams to discover and
inventory research resources, 3) Conduct two cycles of discovery,
curation, dissemination, and assessment of research resources across all
nine sites, 4) Consult an assessment of each cycle and deliver a final
report, 5) Use the successful implementation of discovering invisible
research resources in a test case to bring together resources addressing
the national obesity crisis, and 6) Deliver the operating model,
expertise, and software to NIH. The development of a national
infrastructure that would permit any investigator to discover all
available research resources locally and at other institutions would
greatly facilitate the pace of translation and development of new
diagnostics, treatments, and prevention strategies.
Job Description:
Harvard's Resource Navigators will report to the Project Manager and work
with Lee Nadler, MD, the project's Principal Investigator, Douglas
MacFadden, the project's Co-Investigator, and the Central Project Team to
collect the inventory of research resources at Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University and at many of the 18 Harvard affiliated health care
centers (e.g. Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children's Hospital
Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center). Resource
Navigators will collect the inventory of Animal Models (e.g. Disease
Models, Genetic Models, Unique species); conventional and unique Core
Equipment and Assays; Clinical Cohorts Resource-specific Publications;
Reagents (e.g., monoclonal antibody clones, inhibitory RNA); Resource
Funding Opportunities and Funding Sources; and Human Tissue Banks (e.g.,
cell lines, sera, frozen tissue, isolated DNA, isolated RNA). These
inventories may be stored in PI-managed laboratories, institutional core
facilities, shared resource centers or central offices. Since the
inventory may be collected by a variety of methods (e.g. lists posted on
websites, paper documents within offices) s/he will assist in the
development of a common collection form. Additionally, the Resource
Navigator will be asked to assist in the development of the use cases and
the implementation of the prototype product. S/he must have excellent
interpersonal and communication skills since they will be the first point
of contact for the project team and the public face of the project at the
site responsible for promotion of the benefits of participation. Although
not required, a familiarity with informatics would be helpful to
facilitate collaborative interactions with the central project team.
Overview of Harvard Catalyst | CTSC
Funded in May, 2008, the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science
Center (CTSC), known as Harvard Catalyst, continues to assemble its team
as it grows into its second year. Harvard Catalyst will facilitate
clinical and translational research throughout the 27 Harvard schools and
Academic Healthcare Centers (Massachusetts General Hospital, Children's
Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and others) by lowering barriers
to inter-institutional research, providing seed funding for collaborative
experiments, and helping trainees and faculty gain access to resources.
Harvard Catalyst's annual operating budget exceeds $38 million, funded by
the NIH and the participating Harvard institutions. Requirements:
A Ph.D. in a bioscience field and familiarity with broad areas of
scientific terminology is required. Excellent organizational skills are
required to track site progress and meet critical deadlines. The ability
to work both independently and part of a team and to organize, write and
present data are also required attributes. We seek highly motivated,
enthusiastic, and interactive individuals. Must be U.S. citizen or
permanent resident.
Please send a cover letter, CV, and the names, telephone numbers, and
email addresses of three references.
Job Type: Full Time
Contact information:
Seanne Hanke
Implementation Manager
Harvard Catalyst - CTSC
Harvard University
10 Shattuck St. Suite 514
Boston, MA 02135
Phone: 617-432-7812
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