Research Associate - Expression (Cell Bio)
Merge Labs
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 7, 2026
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About the job
... Research AssociateMerge Labs is a frontier research lab with the mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize... ...use as molecular readouts of neural activity.As a Research Associate, you'll work alongside scientists to characterize and improve...