Associate Scientist III
Position Summary
Catalent Cell and Gene Therapy is looking to recruit an Associate Scientist III to join our growing team in Baltimore, MD.
The Associate Scientist III is actively engaged in a product development within a dynamic project team. Displays strong technical knowledge, initiative and scientific commitment, and makes significant scientific and technical contributions within Drug Development (Pre-Clinical Development, Process Development, Analytical Development, Formulation) Group as well as their project teams.
Catalent Gene Therapy hires people with a passion to make a difference. Your expertise, coupled with our advanced technologies and collaboration with innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives.
The Role
Knowledge/expertise should be practical and focused pertaining to lab-related activities. Examples might include: VLP vaccines, Viral Vector based gene therapies and Nanotechnologies, Antigen based vaccines (Including conjugated vaccines), Protein biochemistry (protein folding, protein degradation, aggregation, ), HPLC, UPLC, CE, EM, DLS assay development etc Analytical development of in process assay and release assays, and assay qualification Interacting with appropriate upstream and downstream functional areas (cell culture, purification, clinical, regulatory, marketing, etc). Helping to map out activities/timing required from pre-clinical through technology transfer to cGMP manufacturing. Expected to review, give constructive criticism, and question the science within Drug Development (Analytical, Process Development, Formulation) Group. Designs, executes, interprets and reports results on their work with minimum overview from their supervisor.
The Candidate
M.S. in Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences or related field, with 2-5 years of experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry or academia. B.S. with extended experience will be considered The ability to work in team oriented environment is essential, as this person will work closely with other members of Drug Development Group and participate on multidisciplinary project teams.
Why You Should Join Catalent
Competitive medical benefits and 401K 19 days of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays Dynamic, fast-paced work environment Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process Diverse, inclusive culture Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives Competitive salary with quarterly bonus potential Community engagement and green initiatives Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment Tuition Reimbursement On-site fitness center and wellness programs
Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.
Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.
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