Laboratory and Data Support (Part-Time)

The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a part-time (20 hours) contractor position; Laboratory and Data Support with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Research Triangle Park, NC. 

This is an excellent opportunity for a current college student to collaborate with EPA’s research team. Research experience includes:

Location: This job will be located at EPA’s facility in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Salary: $16.89 per hour.

Travel: No travel is required.

The Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure (CCTE) provides the science needed to support Agency decisions by performing rapid chemical screening and evaluation that allows thousands of chemicals to be evaluated for potential risk in a very short amount of time. EPA's Toxicity Forecaster (ToxCast) uses high-throughput screening (HTS) methods and computational toxicology approaches to rank and prioritize chemicals. Within CCTE, the Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division (BCTD) focuses on expanding and refining the development and use of new approach methods (NAMs) for assessing toxicity of large numbers of chemicals with less reliance on animal testing.

To support NAMs, the ‘virtual tissue models’ research area provides physical models and mathematical simulations of specific organ systems and developmental outcomes informing risk-based assessments of new and existing chemicals. This research area expands understanding of chemical effects on developmental and reproductive toxicology. A key challenge for science and technology is to build and test in silico agent-based and computational models to predict and evaluate the effects of chemicals on biological pathways critical for early life stage endpoints. Assessing neurodevelopmental toxicity is an Agency priority. Although much research is directed at later stages of brain maturation, understanding the processes involved in the initial stages of fetal brain development is important as chemical disruption at formative stages can have lasting impacts on individual health and well-being.