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Scientist - I (Assistant)

Boston, MA 02115

Posted: 09/06/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Scientific Job Number: 614416 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description


Target Pay Rate: 27.77/hr **salary will be commensurate with experience 

Job Description:

Protein Sciences - Boston of client Research Laboratories (MRL) is seeking a contractor to execute existing laboratory automation workflows on our high-throughput antibody and protein production platforms.
Specifically, to perform weekly expression runs for hundreds of antibodies to support early discovery efforts.
In this role you will build and then use a combination of protein expression, purification, and laboratory automation skills.
This role will require an eagerness to learn and an ability to work with different teams and different equipment to operate a robust high throughput protein production platform.
Your efforts will be a complement and core resource to existing capabilities and will serve to expand the teams ability to interrogate antibody/protein diversity in order to identify optimal leads.
You will have the opportunity to apply your enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of Discovery Biologics - Boston to support and help drive multidisciplinary biotherapeutic discovery programs.

Responsibilities:
• Operate and maintain existing liquid handling platforms including Lynx, Hamilton and Tecan to drive our small-scale automated protein production platforms.
• Troubleshoot automation methods and devices to maintain optimal high throughput protein production (yield, reproducibility, reliability, etc.).
• Generate frequent production summary reports.
• Follow and improve Standard Operating Procedures for expression and purification workflows.

Qualifications:
Required Qualifications, experience and skills: • A minimum of a B.S degree with 1-2 years of experience in a relevant field (e.g. protein sciences, chemical or bioengineering, biochemistry or similar) with additional training being desirable. • Experience with cell culture, aseptic techniques, and protein/antibody production workflows and their inherent data management. • Strong problem solving and communication skills. • Ability to multitask, time management, and prioritize activities. Preferred/Nice to have experience and skills: • Experience with operating TECAN and/or other liquid handling platforms. • Experience working with transient expression systems (HEK/CHO). • Experience with programming languages such as Python. Key skills/must haves: • Cell culture experience • Aseptic techniques • Research tech experience • Lab experience with in academia or industry Notes: • 6 months assignment with possibility of extension. • 100% onsite-lab based role.

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Although this hasn't been an issue at Planet Pharma, the staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly and never provide banking information during the application process. Candidate safety is a top priority at Planet Pharma.