Scientist – III (Senior) – PA/NJ Only
Our Client, a leading global pharmaceutical company who specializes in developing and manufacturing a variety of well-known pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and animal-health products is seeking a Scientist to join their growing team. This is a great opportunity to work at a household name, get industry best training, and work with state of the art equipment, systems and products.
One year contract
Responsibilities:
- Utilizing the technologies of Flow Cytometry, Molecular Pathology, Immunochemistry, Mass Spectrometry and Genomics, the Translational Molecular Biomarkers (TMB) is responsible for clinical biomarkers in all therapeutic areas and in all phases of clinical development.
- Develop and validate immunoassays within TMB for all therapeutic areas and all phases of clinical development.
- Assist in lab instrument validation.
- Assist in the transition of biomarker assays from Basic Research to Clinical by providing technical guidance on fit-for-purpose assay validation.
- Interface with biomarker leads and operation leads in early and late stage clinical development to execute on biomarker strategies in clinical trials.
- Writing memos, assay validation reports, clinical sample analysis reports and publications summarizing data, and writing/updating lab SOPs.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in immunoassay development and validation, collaborating with project teams, biomarkers leaders, clinical operation and regulatory affairs on the implementation of these assays in clinical trials.
Qualifications:
- BS (+3 years of experience), MS (+1 year of experience) or PhD (+0 years) in a life sciences discipline (Biochemistry etc.) or Chemistry
- Immunoassay or immunochemistry assay experience
- Cell culture experience
- Cell sorting experience