Cell Biologist - Surrey, United Kingdom - Cranleigh Scientific

Cranleigh Scientific

Verified Company

Surrey, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A growing biotechnology company has an exciting opportunity for a Research Scientist to join its Cell & Molecular Pharmacology team.

Your role will be to set up, run and interpret biological assays including binding ELISAs and cell based functional assays,with the ultimate goal of supporting antibody discovery.

To be considered you must have previous experience in cell based assays and cell culture in an industrial lab.

Daily Duties:

Experience Required:

At least a Bachelor's degree in a relevant biological science with 35 year's laboratorybased experience gained within the biotechnology or pharmaceutical sector.
Molecular biology and microbiological skills such as PCR, RT-PCR, cloning, gel electrophoresis, DNA/RNA isolation.
Proteinbased techniques such as SDS-PAGE, Western blot, stability studies.
Experience in Cellbased assay development
Tissue culture and aseptic techniques. Ability to maintain several mammalian cell lines in parallel.
Working knowledge of platebased immunoassays, e.g. ELISA, or homogeneous assays.
Confident in the preparation of general laboratory media and reagents.
Ability to work flexibly across projects with excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
Strong organisational skills.
Enjoys working independently and in a team.
Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
Antibody discovery and antibody therapeutics development.
Flow cytometry methods
A background in virology or microbiology.
Experience of using phage display technology.
Antibody engineering, protein and antibody expression, purification and characterisation.
Experience of working with functional assay technologies such as SPR