University of Iowa Health Care Department of Otolaryngology is seeking a Research Assistant to perform clinical molecular diagnostic testing in the area of genetic hearing loss and rare complement-mediated renal disease.. The Research Assistant (RA) will work with whole blood, saliva and DNA samples received into the Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories - Clinical Diagnostics Services (MORL CDS). The RA will perform sample accessioning, DNA extraction and quantification, perform PCR, Sanger sequencing and MLPA testing, develop primers, perform next generation sequencing (NGS), evaluate genetic variants using computation method