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Senior Scientist, Cardiac Preservation (Organ Perfusion)
$175K–$210K
Bay Area · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
- Experience
- Significant (4+ years) experience as a scientific leader in an industry context is stated as an alternative to a PhD.
- Education
- PhD in a STEM field is preferred; or significant (4+ years) experience as a scientific leader in an industry context.
About the job
Develops and runs ex vivo heart perfusion and cryopreservation experiments to assess and improve cardiac viability and recovery.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute ex vivo heart perfusion protocols, including normothermic machine perfusion (NMP).
- Build viability assessments using functional, perfusion, metabolic, histological, and omics readouts.
- Test changes to cryoprotectant formulations and cryopreservation procedures to optimize cardiac health and recovery.
What they ask for
- Hands-on expertise in ex vivo heart perfusion, ideally including NMP of the heart.
- Strong understanding of cardiac physiology and biology, including myocardial metabolism, contractile function, and ischemia/reperfusion injury.
- Experience designing and conducting organ viability assessments and interpreting multimodal readouts.
- Experience executing complex experimental protocols in an ex vivo bench model.
Nice to have
- PhD in a STEM field, ideally cardiac physiology, organ preservation, or transplant; or significant (4+ years) experience as a scientific leader in an industry context.
- Direct experience with cardiac transplant or heart preservation research.
Pay
USD 175,000–210,000 (per-year-salary)
Tools
normothermic machine perfusion (NMP), cryoprotectant formulations, histology, omics
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