Postdoctoral Fellow, Biopharmaceutics

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Program Overview

AbbVie needs outstanding individuals willing to challenge themselves to find the best solutions for our patients. The AbbVie Postdoctoral Program is one way we are doing just that. AbbVie Postdoctoral Fellows serve as technical experts who investigate, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques to address critical project or functional area needs. Participants will improve existing or develop new laboratory methods and processes, read and adapt literature to accomplish assignments, and should have mastery of a range of experimental techniques and data analysis specific to their area of expertise.

The Postdoctoral Program supports investigational and experimental research where publication is an important component. Participants will be mentored by renowned industry scientists and collaborators at AbbVie and focus on delivering cutting-edge advancements in Discovery, Development Sciences, and Aesthetics which includes fields such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical science, and computational information sciences. This enriching training program offers a balance of supervised investigation and work experience in a learning environment that will expose the participant to activities across the drug development process.

We are seeking scientists from U.S.-based academic institutions who can be matched to projects within their area of scientific expertise for this unique 2-3-year assignment. Applicants who are awarded a postdoctoral position will have the opportunity to build a solid career foundation in the pharmaceutical industry while contributing to advancing human health through AbbVie's industry-leading biopharmaceutical pipeline.

Role Overview

The Drug Product Design and Development (DPDD) function within the Development Sciences organization is accountable for a broad range of deliverables across various stages of developing clinical and commercial formulations for novel drug molecules. During the drug product development process, DPDD scientists rely on state of the art in vitro and computational tools supported by expertise in biopharmaceutics, drug delivery, and physical pharmacy to achieve target product quality and performance. Biopharmaceutics scientists work collaboratively with other functions such as pharmaceutics, ADME, formulation and clinical teams within Development Sciences organization to support and guide the design of drug products. In this role, the postdoctoral fellow will be part of a dynamic, engaging, and multidisciplinary environment that includes pharmaceutical scientists, engineers, and chemists.

The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to bridge existing gaps in the use of in vitro screening tools to enable rapid candidate selection or drug product development using knowledge of GI physiology, drug molecular attributes, and drug product excipients. The candidate will participate in the Biopharmaceutics cross-functional team to design, develop and implement novel high throughput screening platforms. Most existing tools for in vitro screening are either low throughput or are of limited ability to predict in vivo performance. The postdoc will