research assistant job description
Research Assistant Job Description
Research assistants carry through a myriad of functions at any research center that include gathering and organizing data and executing varied other duties, thus making them an integral part of any research center.
- Go through the different research documents and edit them.
- Submit protocols of edited documents.
- Obtain consent documents from the subjects on whom the research is conducted or the guardians of those subjects.
- Make tabular formats, fact sheets, graphs and reports on each of the research results in order to summarize them.
- Prepare databases as well as manage and manipulate them whenever needed.
- Assist in the designing of questionnaires and other survey methodologies.
- Study and screen all the subjects that have registered as study subjects and determine their suitability for the research study that is to be conducted.
- Handle the follow-up that is required after the study is conducted.
- Track the research participants for the same.
- Proofread the data and make corrections wherever necessary.
- Take charge of the laboratory space and manage its day, timings and allocation schedule.
- Prepare special programs for certain tasks like data entry and statistical analysis.
- Perform assessment of the needs with the clients.
- Exhibit the results of the research experiments to groups of people.
- Assist in preparation of presentations, manuscripts and other project related topics.
- Survey the tasks of survey interviewers.
- Keep a track of the laboratory expenses incurred.
- Handle matters of participant reimbursements.
- Keep a check on all the materials needed in the laboratory and buy them as and when needed.
- Look into the different requirements of the research experiments and collect whatever is needed.
- Convert material into coded data for computer entry.
- Formulate and bring into force varied research quality and control procedures.
- Developing and writing the different trial protocols; thereby specifying the purpose and the methodology of the trial.
- Presenting these trial protocols to a steering committee.
- Designing forms for data collection.
- Coordinating with the ethics committee to gather daily updates. The ethics committee is responsible for the well-being of the subject's rights and safety.
- Interacting with the doctors and consultants on matters of conducting the trial.
- Keeping a check on all the approvals and applications that oversee the marketing and research of new and existing drugs.
- Setting up the centers, complete with all the materials and facilities needed.
- Training a staff according to the industrial standards and needs.
- Monitoring and keeping an account of all the trials conducted.
- Visiting the study centers to keep a check on the trials conducted, and their progress.
- Verifying the data that has been supplied by the patients and the data that has been entered. Correcting errors, if found.
- Discussing the results of the trial with a medical professional and converting it into a technical format.
- Preparing the final report of the trial and handling the dispatching to various publishing houses, if the need be.
- Making an archive of all the material studied and used for future reference.