Senior Research Scientist-CMC, process development
Location: Cambridge
Our client is a biotechnology research company. They are a leading developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to develop and discover live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers.
They are currently seeking a driven and organised senior research scientist to join their preclinical development team. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to work with this team to progress a leading microbiome company into clinical development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive Strategy within the process development team
- Work with the team to establish lyophilisation capabilities
- Develop suitable formulations for live-bacteria based drugs
- Support the companies interactions with GMP manufacturing organisations assisting in the process transfer
- Critically review and summarise internal and external data
- Liaise with research microbiologists
- Report progress to project teams
- Document experimental work to meet the requirements of regulations and guidelines
Key Skills:
- A PhD in Microbiology or a closely related subject with further industry experience or a BSc/MSc and 5+ years experience in a bioprocessing environment
- Experience in a bioprocess environment, in upstream and/or downstream process development.
- Biochemistry knowledge- applied to bioprocessing
- Experience in the development of bacterial bioprocesses