USF University of South Florida

Compensation

Full Description

The Division of Comparative Medicine serves as an advocate for all animals housed at University facilities and at University-affiliated hospitals or research institutes. Comparative Medicine implements and administers the AAALAC-accredited Animal Care and Use Program and provides veterinary oversight of animal health and well-being, guidance and assistance with veterinary medical and surgical techniques, services of disease surveillance, diagnosis and treatment, animal husbandry and nutrition, zoonosis control, hazard containment, and sanitation. agnostic, behavioral testing, and transgenic laboratories. This position contributes to Comparative Medicine, the university's program of thirteen integrated laboratories for research and teaching involving animals, and provides equipment and room sanitation and sterilization services. This position provides essential equipment and room decontamination, sanitation, and sterilization services involving hot water, detergents, acids, steam autoclaves, and vaporized hydrogen peroxide and documents the efficacy of such using polymerase chain reaction and other tests, thereby ensuring research data integrity, in accordance with federal regulations, and standard operating procedures, in support of research protocols funded by federal grant awards, and maintains records and logs of environmental conditions.