Job Title: Assoc Scientist Bioscience
Location: Gaithersburg, MD, 20878 Onsite
Duration: 6 to 7 months Contract - possible to extend
Shift Details: 1st Shift - Hours/Shift
Job Description:
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
The position resides in the Purification Process Sciences group (PPS) within the Bioprocess Development R&D (BPD) department. Members of the PPS function work closely with other development functions and manufacturing sciences to develop and transfer clinical and commercial purification processes. Position may require weekend work and/or periodic late nights. Main duties are as follows:
- Design, development, and optimization of downstream processes for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals in early and late stage development.
- Evaluation and development of new technologies to facilitate process development and increase purification process efficiency.
- Performing purifications for complex biopharmaceutical drugs such as antibodies, multispecific antibodies, fusion proteins, pDNA, and viruses.
- Performing studies to develop scalable purification processes and assist in tech transfer activities.
- Solving challenging protein purification problems.
- Coordinating closely with the research department, cell culture group, and analytical biotechnology group in order to meet project timelines and company goals.
- Conducting pilot scale purifications in support of process development activities and support development studies.
- Maintain accurate records of data and actively participate in laboratory organization.
- Professionally deliver results to internal and external audiences.
- Supervision: Should be able to function with limited supervision and is expected to work independently on a day-to-day basis. Expectation for independence will increase with time and experience in the position.
Relevant Education & Experience Requirements:
BS/BA or MS/MA in biology, biochemistry, chemical/biochemical engineering, or related field.
Research Associate I: BS 0+ years experience.
Research Associate II: BS 2+ years experience, MS 0+ years experience.
Required Skills:
- Highly team-oriented, energetic, critical thinker, organized, capable of multitasking with excellent oral and written skills.
- Knowledge of Basic Protein Chemistry.
- Protein Chromatography.
- Basic Analytical Techniques (HPLC and SDS-PAGE Analyses).
- Data analysis, Statistics, and DOE techniques and software.
Desired Skills:
- Experience performing protein chromatography using AKTA/AKTA software.
- Experience performing analytical testing and HPLC analysis.
- Purification Process Design for protein therapeutics.
- Troubleshoot and collaboratively resolve complex problems under tight time constraints.
Top Three HM Is Looking For:
Protein purification experience.
Chemical engineer, microbiologist, biochemist, or experience in a lab, etc., if direct from college.
Experience with the equipment used would be preferred but not necessary.
Interviewing: Virtual or in person.
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