Scientist III

To discuss more about this job opportunity, please reach out to Deepak Arya (LinkedIn URL - www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-arya-8a79aa22a/), email your updated resume at Email - .... Thank you!

Pay rate: $60 - $65/hr.

Industry: Pharmaceutical

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Collaborate with cross-functional and therapeutic area teams to advance novel lentiviral vectors into pipeline
• Design and engineer lentiviral vectors and manage lentiviral production by leveraging internal and CRO resources.
• Help build and establish analytical and cell-based screening assays (e.g., p24, VCN, SupT1 titration, ELISA, qPCR, ddPCR, WES, FACS, and endotoxin assay)
• Maintain a comprehensive Electronic Lab Notebook documenting experiments
• Maintain a high level of productivity in the team with clear daily, detailed, and accurate documentation of experiments
• Author technical reports and protocols
• Understand and enforce company culture, teamwork, safety, appropriate handling of materials in an BSL2 environment
• Perform all activities in compliance with applicable regulations, Clients policies and guidelines

Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in biology or a relevant field with 5+ years of experience in lentiviral vector-based gene therapy in addition to post-doctoral experience; industrial experience highly desired.
• Strong expertise and experience in lentiviral vector design, engineering and production
• Experience in managing CROs for lentiviral production
• Experience in analytical and screening methods for characterization of lentiviral vector products
• Experience in CAR-T cell therapy
• Experience in in vivo lentiviral targeted delivery is a plus

• Cell-based assays
• CAR-T cell therapy
• In vivo lentiviral delivery
• CRO management
• Gene therapy
• BSL2 laboratory experience
• Vector characterization