Principal Scientist Jobs

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• Managing Chemist
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The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Principal Scientist position

• Affirmative Action
• Analytical Chemistry
• Assay Development
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biology
• Biotechnology
• Cell Biology
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• Chemical Formulation
• Chromatography
• Clinical Trials
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• Communication Skills
• Computational Biology
• Computational Chemistry
• Design
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry
• Drug Development
• Drug Discovery
• Engineering
• Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay
• Evaluation
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• Flow Cytometry
• Food Science
• Good Laboratory Practice
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
• Immunology
• Implementation
• Investigation
• Leadership
• Liquid Chromatography
• Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
• Management
• Mass Spectrometry
• Medicinal Chemistry
• Mentoring
• Method Development
• Molecular Biology
• Oncology
• Optimization
• Organization
• Pharmaceutical Sales
• Planning
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Presentation
• Problem Solving
• Process Development
• Product Development
• Project Management
• Protein Expression
• Purification
• Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Regulations
• Regulatory Compliance
• Research and Development
• Research Skills
• Software
• Staff Supervision
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Structural Biology
• Synthesis
• Toxicology
• Training and Development
• Troubleshooting
• Validation
• Virology
• Written Communication

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