Scientist I, Purification Development

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Biologics CMC Development team at AbbVie in the Bay Area has a long and rich history of biologics development. Now located in a new state of the art facility in South San Francisco, the team leverages its comprehensive end-to-end CMC capabilities to work collaboratively through all phases of CMC development with a primary focus on advancing complex biologic therapies, such as bi-specifics and novel modalities, to human clinical studies and eventual licensure. This Scientist I role is within a team of highly experienced scientists and managers who have directly enabled the development/IND submissions of 20+ novel oncology drugs and successfully filed two BLAs.

This position is an onsite role in a lab-based function. To be successful candidates must enjoy and thrive in an onsite, highly collaborative lab environment with daily face-to-face cross-functional interactions between scientists.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, optimize, and scale-up purification processes

• Support transfer processes to GMP manufacturing site for clinical material production

• Work efficiently, collaboratively, and cross-functionally toward project timelines and goals

• Work with contract labs and carry out viral clearance studies

• Write technical reports

• Author and deliver technical presentations

Qualifications

Basic:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and typically 5 years of experience and MS or equivalent education and typically 2 years of experience

• Must have protein purification experience including chromatography separations and filtration operations

• Must have excellent attention to detail and ability to keep detailed written records

• Demonstrated ability to independently design, execute and interpret critical experiments to answer scientific questions

• Demonstrated ability to learn, understand and master new experimental techniques

• Able to work collaboratively within and outside of the group

• Able to author technical reports and presentations

• Has understanding of biochemistry and bioprocess engineering concepts

• Has strong planning and analytical skills

• Experience with AKTA chromatographic instruments (such as AKTA Avant, AKTA Purifier, AKTA Pure or similar)

• Demonstrated scientific writing skills and strong verbal communication skills including scientific data presentations

• Has proficiency with Microsoft Office software, ability to learn new software applications

Preferred:

• Has hands on experience with executing antibody or antibody-like molecule purification techniques including resin chromatography (affinity, CEX, AEX, MMC), depth filtration, virus filtration, membrane chromatography, and TFF operations.

• Has hands on experience with monoclonal antibody or antibody-like molecule purification at GMP, pilot and/or laboratory scale

• Understanding of analytical techniques, such as HPLC, LAL, and ELISA

• Has hands on experience with high-throughput technologies and automation

Additional Information

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