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ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST ANTIBODY DISCOVERY
Memphis, TNThe World’s Most Dedicated Never Give Up
There’s a reason St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is recognized as a great place to work. Because at our world-class pediatric research hospital, every one of our professionals shares our commitment to make a difference in the lives of the children we serve. There’s a unique bond when you’re part of a team that gives their all to advance the treatments and cures of pediatric catastrophic diseases. The result is a collaborative, positive environment where everyone, regardless of their role, receives the resources, support and encouragement to advance and grow their careers and be the force behind the cures.
Candidates with experience in protein engineering, expression and validation of biologics are encouraged to apply.
What you will do:
- Work closely with mAb discovery platforms to support molecular biology workflows; design and execute construct generation for antibody expression.
- Perform DNA preparations to generate high-quality plasmid material for mammalian cell transfection.
- Develop and optimize high-throughput mammalian cell-based production platforms for recombinant antibodies, antigens, and other biologics.
- Establish scalable transient and stable expression workflows in CHO, HEK293, and other mammalian expression systems.
- Purification using AKTA chromatography systems.
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Size Exclusion Chromatography (HPLC-SEC) analysis of purified proteins.
- Molecular assessment of early-stage development candidates (polyreactivity ELISA, CE-SDS, SEC-MALS, DSF)
- Maintain accurate and timely ELN data
Preferred skills:
- Experience with modern AKTA chromatography systems (FPLC) for affinity capture and SEC chromatography
- Experience with high-throughput automated protein purification systems (e.g. Kingfisher)
- Experience with antibody-related bioinformatic/software packages.
- Expertise in high-throughput molecular biology approaches for construct generation
- Experience with mAb characterization techniques (FACS, BLI, epitope binning).
Minimum Education and/or Training:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific area
Minimum Experience:
- 7 + years of research experience is required
- 5 + years of research experience is required with a Master’s degree
- 2 + years of research experience is required with a PHD
- Experience leading and supporting research experiments preferred
- Some experience leading lab and scientific project coordination, maintenance, and other research support activities preferred
- Experience in guiding and training other laboratory personnel preferred
- Proven performance in earlier role/comparable role
Compensation
In recognition of certain U.S. state and municipal pay transparency laws, St. Jude is including a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This is an estimate offered in good faith and a specific salary offer takes into account factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is $65,520 - $114,400 per year for the role of Associate Scientist Antibody Discovery.Explore our exceptional benefits!
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