Associate Scientist - Biology

About the role

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Responsibilities

As the candidate for this largely laboratory-based position, you will be responsible for driving cutting-edge technology development in RNA Therapeutics and Genetic Medicines. You will work cross-functionally as you use biology and chemistry to help drive innovation in oligonucleotide drug discovery and delivery to new cellular targets. By embracing the ability to delivery any molecule anywhere at the right time for specific outcomes you will help deliver on the promise of therapeutic modularity.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands on experience with molecular and cellular biology techniques and assays including but not limited to: nucleic acid transfection, protein and RNA isolation, protein and RNA analysis.
• Experience with developing and implementing automation of high throughput RT-qPCR and RNA-seq workflows.
• Experience with mammalian tissue culture and cell-based assays.
• Previous experience with primary cells is essential.
• Design and execute in vivo pharmacology studies, model system implementation, dosing, sample collection, and processing.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of related scientific research experience
• Associate’s degree and 4 years of related scientific research experience
• High school diploma /