Applications are invited for Senior Project Associate at Tata Medical Center

The Tata Medical Center (TMC) is a multispecialty institution for tertiary cancer care based in New Town, Kolkata. At TMC, clinical and research activities are integrated to provide state-of-the-art care for patients with cancer. This integration is enabled by the Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre (TTCRC), the research arm of TMC. TTCRC is within a dedicated academic space and spread over 3 floors. At TTCRC, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, academics and industry professionals collaborate to develop a systems medicine approach in cancer research. This approach is focussed on developing innovative, indigenous, cost-effective and equitable strategies to improve cancer diagnosis; develop treatments that match disease characteristics and are adapted to treatment response; and, identify prognostic and predictive disease biomarkers.

Post : Senior Project Associate

The project entitled as “HemaTrack-ALL a robust, reproducible, highly sensitive next generation assay for the detection and quantification of minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic eukemia” is funded for three years by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Applications are invited for the position of Senior Project Associate within PReDiCT group at TTCRC.

Roles and Responsibilities of the candidate
The candidate will join the PReDiCT group and must work closely with CRU and TiMBR Team.
Primary responsibility will be to maintain good laboratory practices and perform responsibilities mentioned below :
(a) Identifying patients for HemaTrack-ALL project
(b) DNA extraction of patient’s samples and QC for MRD workflows
(c) Active participation in library preparation and sequencing runs to track MRD for ALL patients
(d) Reporting the MRD results on time
(e) Proper documentation of regular experiments
(f) Taking part in the quality assessment (QA) twice a year organised by EuroMRD consortium
(g) Active participation in data presentations in group meetings and journal club.
(h) Collating data, creating publication standard figures and contributing in manuscripts preparation.
(i) Active participation for SOP preparation

Minimum required qualifications / experience
(a) Master’s degree in Biological Sciences with four years of expertise in Molecular Biology and Genomics
(b) Hands-on experience in basic laboratory protocols and techniques like DNA extraction, quality check, qPCR, sequencing (Sanger and/or next generation sequencing)
(c) Soft skills : MS Office, Laboratory and clinical data management
(d) Competency in managing large data, data analysis and familiarity with statistical analysis softwares and GraphPad Prism.

Additional experience
• Exposure in handling patients’ samples
• library preparation on Illumina and oxford nanopore sequencing platform is preferred but not mandatory.

Necessary qualities
(a) Integrity, motivation, enthusiasm, responsibility and reliability
(b) Focus and commitment in carrying out tasks and duties
(c) Critical analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of independent work
(d) Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team

Appointment and reporting
Appointment to the position will be for two years. The basic monthly salary is INR 42,000, plus 24% HRA. The position will be funded by Department of Biotechnology (DBT). The successful candidate will be managed by and report to the group lead.

Submission of applications by e-mail (only) to both the emails mentioned below :
Mr Suvasish Mukherjee
Head, Human Resources
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata 700 160
Email: suvashish.mukherjee@tmckolkata.com

Mr. Satadru Dey
Administrative Assistant
Tata Translational Cancer Research Centre
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata 700 160
Email: satadru.dey@ttcrc.tmckolkata.org

Application Closing Date : 17th May 2025