Pharmacokinetics Technician

About Us:

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity

Join Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as a Pharmacokinetics Technician and help advance early-phase clinical research. Working alongside nurses and an interdisciplinary research team, you will support pharmacokinetic studies, safeguard specimen and data integrity, and contribute to compassionate, protocol-driven care for patients participating in innovative cancer research studies every day.

Role Overview

• Conduct Phase 1 pharmacokinetic studies under registered nurse supervision and in collaboration with the clinical research team. • Review research protocols and follow study procedures, regulatory requirements, and standard operating procedures. • Collect and facilitate the collection of pharmacokinetic samples, ensuring procedures are completed safely, accurately, and within required timeframes. • Process specimens through aliquoting and centrifugation, maintain chain of custody, and prepare samples and documentation for shipment. • Maintain accurate sampling-time records and perform quality assurance activities to protect specimen and research-data integrity. • Collect and document study data in approved source documents, case report forms, medical records, and research databases. • Support protocol-directed patient care by obtaining and recording vital signs, height, weight, pulse oximetry, and other required measurements. • Perform and submit electrocardiograms according to protocol requirements, under appropriate clinical supervision. • Maintain a clean, safe, well-stocked clinical environment while following infection-control, hazardous-material, waste-disposal, isolation, and patient-safety procedures.

Key Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required. • Completion of technical education such as an LPN, medical technician, or nursing assistant program required. • Recent phlebotomy experience, generally less than two years, as specified in the job description. • Current phlebotomy certification required. • Demonstrated venipuncture skills required. • Proficiency with EPIC, Microsoft Word and Excel required; experience performing 12-lead EKGs preferred.