Position Summary: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Research Associate II for the Child Health Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.Under the direction of the Principal Investigator, the Research Associate II (RA II) will be responsible for the design, analysis, interpretation, and presentation in oral and written form, a project focused development and function of novel innate immune cells in vital tissues such as the lung and the brain. The goal of this project is to determine the immune and inflammatory mechanisms of asthma. The RA II will conduct specialized research requiring generation of mouse models of chronic asthma, measurement of airway resistance using Flexivent instrument with non-survival surgical