Senior Scientist, Filtration

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Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. With associates across 40+ countries, Cytiva is a place where every day is a learning opportunity – so you can grow your career and expand your skills in the long term.

Forming part of the Biotechnology segment at Danaher, we bring together dedicated technical expertise and talent to develop the next generation of life-changing therapeutics.

We are looking for a Senior Scientist to join the Viral Vector Applications section in the Genomics Medicine OpCo at R&D in Uppsala. The section is made up by 12 researchers that are working in the areas of protein purification, filtration and analysis of viral vectors, plasmids, and nuclei acids, working with product development to get the right products to the customers.

We are now looking for an expert in analytical methods used for AAV (focus ELISA/qPCR).

What You'll Do:

As a Senior Scientist you will be an expert in Filtration of AAV/Lenti/AdV material including harvest and clarification from Upstream material. Work will be conducted in new product development, product care and market support projects with customer needs in focus. Your responsibilities will include:

• Conducting mainly filtration and purification work. This includes being involved in different projects, method development and method verification as well as maintaining instrumentation and creating standard operating procedures as well as mentor and support junior colleagues.
• Be responsible and lead the sections filtration efforts together with the team.
• Have a clear understanding of the full workflow Upstream – Filtration - Downstream to support the appropriate solutions internally with customer focus.
• Propose new technologies, approve technology and technical solutions within relevant area. Generate new ideas and patents.
• Represent the Department on a technical or scientific level. SME in review of projects.
• Identify, develop and maintain an external network.
• Present posters and orals at conferences.

It is important that you in addition to technical expertise can independently plan and perform the tasks in a structured way, report the results at project meetings and in customer discussions.

Who you are:

• You have a PhD or MSc with many 5+ years’ experiences from biopharma, filtration, downstream processing preferably toward Viral vectors in the biopharmaceutical field.
• You have extensive experience in the whole process of AAV purification including cell culture, filtration and purifying AAV. It’s meritorious if you have worked with analysis of AAV.
• You have validation and method development expertise.
• You will understand the AAV market and the customer needs.

Application

We continuously assess candidates and invite them for interviews, so please don’t hesitate to write and send in the application. The recruitment will be completed as soon as suitable candidate is found.

We look forward to seeing your application.

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