FSP Senior Scientist: Mammalian Cell Culture

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Collegeville, PA

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About The Position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner. Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to demonstrate the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated scientist to establish and optimize an in-house platform for the expression, purification, and analytical characterization of complex recombinant proteins, including antibodies and antibody fragments, using secreted mammalian expression systems. This is a unique opportunity for an expert in protein science and automation to build a critical new capability from the ground up within our protein science research group. The successful candidate will drive the development of innovative methods, automation solutions, and establish best practices for high-throughput expression and characterization of antibodies and antibody fragments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, or a related scientific discipline
• 4-6 years of experience in relevant lab work

Nice To Haves

• Experience in antibody expression/purification is a plus
• Experience in SPR/BLI for antibody/antibody fragment characterization is a plus

Responsibilities

• Extensive hands-on experience in recombinant protein expression in mammalian systems
• Demonstrated experience with laboratory automation (TECAN) and high-throughput screening methodologies
• Solid understanding and practical application of various protein analytical techniques
• Strong problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees