PPD Elisa Cell Culture Scientist Vacancy – Candidates Apply Now
PPD is a leading global contract research organization. At PPD we are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our purpose – to improve health.
PPD Laboratories offers the most comprehensive set of laboratory services available in the industry and continues to deliver innovative solutions to our clients through our collaborative approach, including PPD® Laboratories FSP. PPD® Laboratories FSP is a unique partnership that allows our clients to leverage the experience of our PPD staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits/advantages of being a part of PPD.
Job Title: Senior Scientist – ELISA, PCR, CELL CULTURE *$5,000 SIGN-ON BONUS*
Job Location: FSP Rockville MD – Rockville – MD
Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate within multiple project workstreams
• Critical thinking skills and ability to efficiently manage changes in priorities and timelines
• Attention to detail and meticulous execution of project-related tasks
• Plasmid and viral vector cloning, qPCR/ ddPCR, wet lab next-generation sequencing (NGS)
• Experience with FACS analyzer/single-cell sorter
• Experience with CRISPR or other genomic editing tools
• Applies detailed fundamental knowledge of own specialty area or scientific discipline into solving process development problems
• Identifies and prioritizes solutions using knowledge gained through formal education, experience, and sound judgment
• Fully understands the rationale and hypotheses for experimental designs
Job Responsibilities:
Task 1: Support lead scientist to deliver top candidates of site-specific integration (SSI) platform in the Client’s Vx CHO cells through a genome-wide screening approach
Deliverables:
a. Design and synthesis (outsourcing) of necessary constructs b. Production of stable pools and clones
c. Screening for clones with target profile (stability and productivity)
Task 2: Support lead scientist to reverse-engineer pre-existing high-producing CHO clones into PoC SSI candidates
Deliverables:
a. Design and synthesis (outsourcing) of necessary constructs
b. Production of engineered CHO clones
c. Screening for clones with targeted insertion profile
PPD Elisa Cell Culture
