Job Details
Title: Scientist
Duration: 12 months contract with possible extension
Location: Rockville MD
Responsibilities
- Perform a wide range of application principles, theories and concepts in field of interest plus working knowledge of other related disciplines.
- Provide assay /testing and decisions and recommendations; conduct independent investigations; generate internal or external documents valuable to VPP; contribute to project teams.
- Coordinate and establish relationships and possible collaborations within department, outside department, and outside the organization, such as customers and suppliers.
- Use mass spectrometry for characterization and quantification of products in support of all vaccine and monoclonal antibody development.
- Setup new methods, support project characterization, investigations, and trouble shooting.
- Work independently within project teams to design, develop and optimize analytical assays and innovatively setup new mass spec qualitative and quantitative methods
- Lead other chromatography or immune-assay method development and project support, as well as being involved in project presentations and cutting-edge scientific investigations.
Experience Required / Requirements
- PhD in biochemistry, analytical chemistry, or related discipline.
- Minimum of three (3) to four (4) years of related experience.