Senior Scientist – Antibody Deep Screening Platform

AstraZeneca

Gaithersburg, MD, United States
Base: $116,284.00 - $174,426.00; bonus/equity: sho...
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Antibody discovery using display-based systems
Ngs library construction for illumina
Phage or yeast display enrichment campaigns
** AstraZeneca is seeking a Senior Scientist for their Antibody Deep Screening Platform in Gaithersburg, MD. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in antibody discovery and experience with next-generation sequencing, working within a collaborative and innovative environment. **

Job Summary

  • Your role will be to advance a deep screening technology that fuses next-generation sequencing with ribosome display to discover and optimize antibodies.
  • This is not a routine role – it will involve careful design, prototyping and testing where you will need to fail fast and learn faster, ultimately bringing forward a technology to deploy in therapeutic programs.
  • Our Gaithersburg, Maryland facility creates life-changing medicines for people around the world.

Matching Summary

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** AstraZeneca is seeking a Senior Scientist for their Antibody Deep Screening Platform in Gaithersburg, MD. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in antibody discovery and experience with next-generation sequencing, working within a collaborative and innovative environment. **

Salary

Base: $116,284.00 - $174,426.00; Bonus/Equity: short-term incentive bonus opportunity, equity-based long-term incentive program; Benefits: 401(k) plan, paid vacation and holidays, paid leaves, health benefits

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • antibody discovery using display-based systems
  • NGS library construction for Illumina
  • phage or yeast display enrichment campaigns
  • wet lab optimization for ribosome display
  • designing elegant experiments

Nice-to-have

  • scientific tinkerer and platform builder
  • fearless innovator and pushing boundaries
  • fail fast and learn faster mindset
  • computational fluency in NGS data analysis
  • tissue culture and functional cell-based assays

Key Requirements

  • Ph.D. in molecular biology or related field
  • M.S. with 5+ years’ experience
  • B.S. with 10+ years’ experience
  • end-to-end experience with library sequencing on NGS platforms
  • Excellent communication and data presentation skills

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