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Scientist
Contract: Cambridge, Massachusetts, US span>
Salary Range: 35.00 - 40.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 363399
End Date: 2025-08-02
Job Status: Expired
This Job is no longer accepting applications
Pay rate: $25 - $30/hr.
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Responsibilities:
- We are currently seeking a highly motivated and passionate scientist in exploratory biologics to join our team in Immunology Discovery department based in Cambridge MA.
- The candidate will focus on making therapeutic molecules using recombinant DNA technology, expression/purification of recombinant proteins, testing purified proteins in functional cellular assays, including basic cell biology and biochemical skills.
- The position offers a unique opportunity for a talented scientist to work in a dynamic, innovative, and multi-disciplinary environment to develop their career at the interface of basic research and early drug discovery.
- The scientist will be responsible for conceptualization, designing strategies to make therapeutic reagents, execution and analysis with the overall aim of promoting innovative drug discovery.
- The position requires ability to work independently, have excellent technical, written and oral communication skills and work very well in a collaborative team environment.
Qualifications and requirements:
- The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in Biological Science or related field with 2-3 years of job related experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience in recombinant DNA technology, design, expression and purification of recombinant monoclonal antibodies.
- Motivated to execute well-thought and well-planned in vitro experiments using the tool reagents generated.
- Hands-on experience in multi-color flow cytometry with both, handling flow cytometer (Canto, MACS Quant) and independently analyzing the data using analytical software such as FlowJo is required.
- Proficient in carrying out ELISA/MSD to quantitate pro-inflammatory proteins.
- Basic cell biology and biochemical skills: Tissue culture, Transfection, Cell line generation, SDS-PAGE, Immunoprecipitation, Western blotting etc.
- Knowledge of DNA/RNA handling and other molecular biology techniques like PCR and qPCR.
- Hands on experience in carrying out size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and mass spectrometry.
Job Requirement
- Recombinant DNA technology
- Protein purification
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Flow cytometry
- ELISA / MSD
- Cell-based assays
- Cell culture
- Tissue culture
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- Recruiter
- Phone
- Deepak Arya
- deepak.arya@collabera.com
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