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Your Role: The ideal candidate will lead a team to accomplish bio-conjugation process chemistry technology transfer and development campaigns designed to deliver robust and cost-effective production processes to GMP manufacturing.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Leverage experience in protein biochemistry and/or conjugation chemistry to on-board/develop, optimize and scale up bio-conjugation process chemistry unit operations.
- Effectively work with key stakeholders to technology transfer time sensitive bio-conjugation production processes to GMP manufacturing.
- Utilize experience in protein biochemistry for generic analysis and characterization of protein conjugates.
- Troubleshoot bio-conjugate production process non-conformances and deliver data driven solutions
Who You Are:
Basic Qualifications:
- Ph,D. Degree in biochemistry, biology or related field
- Documented experience in protein or other biopolymer purification at both the bench and production scale employing state of the art chromatographic and ultrafiltration unit operations
- Experience in bio-conjugation process chemistry development and optimization, including the use of Design of Experiments approaches highly desired
- Documented experience in qualitative and quantitative characterization protein and/or bio-conjugate employing current and evolving analytical methods
- Exemplary communication skills including timely and concise written and oral communications to both external and internal project stakeholders
- Attention to detail in planning, execution and documentation of experimental work.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years relevant experience in research and development in either industry or academia is preferred.
- Experience related to chemical and/or enzymatic conjugation of small molecule payloads to biopolymer scaffolds strongly preferred.
- Experience with protein purification, or oligo nucleotide purification on preparative scale a strong plus.
- Previous experience leading teams is highly desired.
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