Lead Scientist

Lonza

Slough, United Kingdom

As a Lead Scientist in this lab-based role you will deliver technical solutions for the next generation purification processes that meet industry demands. You will design, plan and execute studies in support of technology or process/product development projects with well-defined scopes and timelines. Analyse study data to drive conclusions and maintain Lonza as the lead supplier.

Key responsibilities:

Contribute to the development of advanced primary recovery strategies;
Assess novel primary recovery technologies at Laboratory and Pilot scale;
Design, develop and optimize scalable primary recovery processes and novel affinity purification methods;
Assess ligands and tag technologies for novel affinity capture steps;
Study ligand-protein interactions through in-silico and biophysical methods;
Develop and refine the process conditions for bespoke affinity capture methods;
Independently designs studies, collate, evaluate/analyze and interpret complex data sets to achieve project targets;
Write and execute detailed study plans with problem statements, success criteria and timelines;
Author high quality technical reports and publications with scientifically supported conclusions and recommendations.

Key requirements:

Minimum qualification of master's degree in the field of biotechnology, chemistry or chemical engineering;
Experience in executing the primary separation and protein purification for biotherapeutics;
Ability to troubleshoot downstream equipment and purification protocols;
Effectively use digital tools for data analysis and to increase productivity;
Demonstrable experience in working in a laboratory environment;
Experience in writing scientific technical reports and publications;
Fluent English language skills.

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