Associate Principal Scientist Job Description
Associate principal scientist
provides hands-on Statistical Tool development, data processing, and statistical analysis for the delivery teams and management scientists.
Associate Principal Scientist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Work closely with other Technical Development teams, particularly Drug Product Analytical Development and Process Development, to support raw material testing and process development
Transfer robust analytical methods and train appropriate personnel in their use (both internally and externally)
Management of external CMO efforts to develop analytical methods for delivery materials (custom chemistry, intermediates, starting materials, impurities)
Developing data science approaches to integrate and extract novel insights from data
Developing algorithms and automating redundant processes to facilitate data integration, aggregation and formatting for use in model building and visualization efforts
Prototyping models to facilitate the model development stage
Running simulations using existing model platforms, based on project team needs
Designing and building visualization environments for ongoing projects that facilitate the use of computational models for simulation purposes
Maintaining modeling platforms and tool libraries
As a member of the iLab, the incumbent is expected to carry out independent research which involves conceiving, designing, planning, and implementing advanced studies aimed at further establishing these types of methodologies, supporting CPDC’s broader strategic and tactical needs in the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Associate Principal Scientist Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Associate Principal Scientist
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Education for Associate Principal Scientist
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Employers hiring for the associate principal scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Science, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology, Microbiology, Biological Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Life Sciences
Skills for Associate Principal Scientist
Desired skills for associate principal scientist include:
Various aspects of product manufacture and functional area interdependencies
CGMPs
Site readiness
Drug Substance
R
Statistical methods for DOE design and data analysis
Statistical process control techniques for biologics processes
Analytical
Manufacturing operations background
Statistical and data processing software SAS
Desired experience for associate principal scientist includes:
PhD, or equivalent, in statistics, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or life sciences, with a strong background in the pharmaceutical or related industry being desirable
Independently organize and lead execution of research projects for Coolers, Sensates and Flavors
Significant understanding of all functional areas of drug development, including, biology, toxicology, clinical development, diagnostic development
Doctorate in biology, microbiology, virology, immunology, or related field (Ph.D.) is required
PhD/MS/BS in biological sciences, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, or related field
Experienced in pathway analysis of transcriptome profile with common analysis tools
Associate Principal Scientist Examples
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Associate Principal Scientist Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for an associate principal scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for associate principal scientist
- Candidate will work as member of a multidisciplinary team to solve complex technical problems related to production of biotherapeutics
- Lead interactions with end-users to understand business needs and develop solutions based on Advanced Process Control principles
- Active engagement with IT groups to implement solutions
- Conceptualize, design and develop biochemical and biophysical assays for high throughput screening and follow up characterization of hit classes of interest
- Responsible for the design, execution and delivery of formulation and process development studies for liquid and lyophilized parenteral drug products of biologics
- Critically review and interpret raw data and information
- Ensure documentation of work
- Interface with scientists and physicians in early and late stage clinical development to execute on biomarker strategies in clinical trials
- Serve as a subject matter expert in tissue-based assay development and validation, collaborating with project teams, biomarker leaders, clinical operations and regulatory affairs on the implementation of these assays in clinical trials
- Develop mass spec methods to characterize nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and other biomolecules
Qualifications for associate principal scientist
- Experience in applying innovative tools such as Systems Biology
- A strong track record of achievement and experience of working on programs aimed at identifying novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
- An international reputation for research excellence and can show evidence of research productivity
- Advanced computer skills using MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point )
- Bachelor's degree in Bio-Engineering, bio-related Science Discipline
- A minimum of 3 years of industry experience in drug discovery
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Associate Principal Scientist Job Description
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of associate principal scientist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate principal scientist
- Technical project leadership and lab contributions, spanning multiple initiatives in small-molecule and synthetic polymer delivery materials development and manufacturing
- Act as a link between projects and venture/partner programs in the provision of materials
- Managing in a cross-functional matrix of scientists and engineers internally and external to Moderna
- Contribution to strategy and execution of maintaining supply of novel delivery materials
- Communicate progress, challenges and findings regularly to inform program development stakeholders
- Establish and perform in vitro human based immune cell tumor cell co-culture systems tumor explant systems to enable the pharmacological characterization of drug candidates for cancer immunotherapy
- Contribute to scientific projects to discover innovative immune-cell targeting drugs for cancer immunotherapy
- Collaborate and coordinate effectively with external collaborators other research teams and disciplines across a global discovery research organization
- Propose novel targets and design experiments for target ID and validation
- Lead early discovery projects
Qualifications for associate principal scientist
- 3 years of drug discovery experience in industry
- The position requires either a BS and/or MS in Chemical Engineering or related field from an accredited college/university plus at least 8 years of relevant work experience in process development, or a PhD in Chemical Engineering or a related field from an accredited college/university with at least 3 years of relevant experience
- Biomedical sciences and genetics/genomics
- Bioinformatics / computational biology / machine learning
- Career experience in human disease research and therapy
- Experience in scientific leadership, mentorship and teaching
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of associate principal scientist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for associate principal scientist
- Conduct experiments and generate data
- Present results to project team and senior management
- Application of informatics and modeling techniques to accelerate the evolution of drug discovery leads to drug candidates
- Collaboration with discovery teams to invent novel medicines including contributing to project strategy
- Provide technical/team support and leadership (matrix, project) in manufacturing sciences for late stage cell culture process development, scale-down model development/execution/implementation, process characterization, commercial technology transfer, and qualification studies associated with the development and implementation of bulk processes, systems and facilities related to biologics products.
- Support definition and development of process control strategy including identification of critical process parameters and critical material attributes for upstream process and raw materials (including media/feed components)
- Partnering with commercial manufacturing teams to provide post approval support and upstream subject matter expertise support to ongoing manufacturing activities
- Supporting evaluation and development of innovative process technologies, continuous process improvements and post commercial process enhancements (including development of next generation processes post approval) to support in-line products
- Application of science and risk-based approaches to the characterization and qualification of raw materials (including complex media and nutrient feed components) for the biologics manufacturing
- Collaborate with internal/external partners (Raw material suppliers, external manufacturers )
Qualifications for associate principal scientist
- Well networked across bioinformatics and scientific communities
- Demonstrated ability to form productive collaborative relationships
- A proven track record delivering impactful scientific insight from sequencing and multi-omic data through technical advances in bioinformatics analysis and pattern discovery
- Experience in developing HACCP/Food Safety Plans and preventive control programs
- Vaccine clinical development experience
- PhD or equivalent degree in statistics/biostatistics or related discipline, or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of associate principal scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for associate principal scientist
- Lead cross functional teams and ensure alignment with analytical strategies and Quality Systems in support of late-stage activities (Phase III clinical trials, launch, life-cycle management) for novel vaccines and biologics
- Develop and optimize biochemical, immunochemical and chromatography-based analytical methods (in lab)
- Prepare and execute analytical method transfers and assay method validations, including authoring and coordinating review of protocols and reports
- Provide on-going support to internal staff and external partners to resolve analytical issues and trouble-shooting
- Coordinate analytical issue resolution via subject matter experts within the global vaccines and biologics networks (as needed)
- Contribute as author and reviewer to regulatory submissions
- Independently create and drive execution of regulatory strategy to support lifecycle management of In-line
- Lead, collaborate and communicate with Country Regulatory Leads, Regional Leads, Regional Liaisons, other functional areas within Global Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Safety, MRL and across Divisions with GHH and MMD to ensure alignment around a common set of priorities and objectives for ROW filings and lifecycle management activities
- Align with cross functional team to help set the cocoa crop science agenda which will best support the Cocoa Life plan
- Work with internal and external scientists and operational teams to define complex technical challenges to be solved and determine the need for projects to address these
Qualifications for associate principal scientist
- Ability to collaborate with scientists and work on multi-discipline teams
- Expertise in SAS and clinical trial programming including data steps, procedures, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH
- Experience in all phases of the drug discovery path up to recommendation for preclinical toxicology and clinical study
- PhD or equivalent degree in statistics/biostatistics or related discipline with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience
- Demonstrated competency to develop project objectives aligned with business goals (consumer problem to solve, customer problem to solve, business problem to solve)
- Experience with a scientific programming environment
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Associate Principal Scientist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of associate principal scientist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate principal scientist
- Translate academic research into farmer applicable recommendations
- Communicate outputs from the projects both to the senior RDQI teams and the Cocoa life team to ensure that the learning is embedded in the business to maximize the benefit to the farming community and the business deliverables
- Research and keep up-to-date with developments in cocoa crop science and crop science in general
- Supervise research projects to develop cocoa crop science, both internally and externally
- Maintain and develop cocoa growing resources including data management systems and library, working with IT department to maintain security and back-up systems
- Other RDQ support as required
- Lead the design, planning and execution of multi-step organic synthesis of novel components for our lipid nanoparticles to solve delivery challenges for multiple therapy areas
- Manage a team of associate chemists and ensure timeline adherence and project alignment to meet group and company goals
- Work within cross-functional teams to evaluate and optimize the efficiency and safety of our delivery technologies for multiple therapy areas
- Collaborate on the development of novel in vitro assays for the characterization of lipid nanoparticles and their components
Qualifications for associate principal scientist
- Experience working for or with an imaging CRO for late stage clinical trials (ie
- The candidate should have working knowledge of industry guidelines
- Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutics, Chemical Engineering or related-field with a minimum of 8+ years of experience
- Advanced experience in quantitation of multiple analytes
- Ability to multi-task in a highly dynamic environment and flexibility to work in a fast-paced team in a professional and pleasant manner is a necessity
- History of publication in peer-reviewed journals