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Associate Scientist - In Vivo Pharmacology

BioSpace · Thousand Oaks, CA · 1 mo ago
AnalystFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes mission description at top. We need to use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro: "Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do. Since 1980, weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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, youll 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, youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career." That's about the role/company. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About Amgen". We'll use "About the role". - Then "Associate Scientist In vivo Pharmacology What You Will Do Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will be a part of a fast-paced, integrated, and interactive research group exploring therapeutics for immuno-oncology programs. You will be responsible for generating and communicating pharmacology data to support the progression of oncology and immunotherapy research programs." That's responsibilities intro. - Then "Key Responsibilities Designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting in vivo and in vitro studiesIn vivo work will include handling techniques, such as, tumor inoculation and measurement, oral, SC, IP and IV dosing, blood, tissue collection and model development.In vitro work includes a range of cellular assays including multiparametric flow cytometry and molecular biology techniques to help interpret in vivo observations.Operation and maintenance of laboratory equipment, accurate, timely record-keeping, and data analysisActive participation and presentation at cross-departmental teams and meetings" We need to list responsibilities as
  • . - Then "What We Expect Of You We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Associate Scientist we seek is a Researcher with these qualifications." Then "Basic Qualifications Masters degree and 1 year of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience OR Bachelors degree and 3 years of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience" Then "Preferred Qualifications Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, or a related subject area and 4 years of scientific laboratory experienceHands-on experience with preclinical models of cancerHands on experience administering drugs through various routes.Hands-on experience with in vivo bioluminescence imaging (BLI)Experience collecting blood by different routes and tissues for downstream analysis.Flow cytometry and multi-parametric analysis (5+ colors) experience is strongly desired.Hands-on experience with molecular, cellular, and ex vivo biological techniques and assaysComputer literacy, especially proficiency with GraphPad Prism, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and scientific software.Previous drug discovery experience.Attention to detail, translating into high-quality results.Pro-active, enthusiastic, show desire to learn and be part of a highly productive team." We need to separate Basic Qualifications and Preferred Qualifications maybe under Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide where to put content. We have responsibilities (Key Responsibilities). We have qualifications (Basic and Preferred). We have skills (maybe flow cytometry etc). We have benefits (benefits package). We have Pay (salary range (expected annual salary range). We have schedule? Not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule unless present. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Thus sections: - About the role (intro mission etc) - Responsibilities (list) - Requirements (maybe Basic Qualifications) - Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications) - Skills (maybe specific technical skills like flow cytometry, etc) - Benefits (benefits package) - Pay (salary range) We need to avoid duplication. Ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's extract each piece. About the role: The mission paragraph up to "Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career." That's the intro. Responsibilities: The bullet list after "Key Responsibilities". Also maybe the earlier sentence "You will be responsible for generating and communicating pharmacology data..." but that's part of responsibilities. We'll include that as a bullet or as prose? The instruction: Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

      for prose. So we can have a prose paragraph summarizing responsibilities then a list. But we can also just make list. We'll include a brief prose then list. List items: - Designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting in vivo and in vitro studies - In vivo work will include handling techniques, such as tumor inoculation and measurement, oral, SC, IP and IV dosing, blood, tissue collection and model development. - In vitro work includes a range of cellular assays including multiparametric flow cytometry and molecular biology techniques to help interpret in vivo observations. - Operation and maintenance of laboratory equipment, accurate, timely record-keeping, and data analysis - Active participation and presentation at cross-departmental teams and meetings We need to preserve the exact phrasing? Probably keep as is. Now Requirements: Basic Qualifications: "Masters degree and 1 year of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience OR Bachelors degree and 3 years of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience". That's a requirement. Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: list of items. We need to split Preferred Qualifications into maybe Qualifications heading. Skills: Could be specific technical skills: flow cytometry, multi-parametric analysis, BLI, etc. But many of those are already in Preferred Qualifications. Might be redundant. Perhaps we treat Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications, and Skills as separate for things like computer literacy, attention to detail, proactive etc. But those are also in Preferred Qualifications. To avoid duplication, we could put all under Qualifications and not have Skills. But we need to follow instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But headings are prescribed; we can omit sections if not needed. We could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including Basic and Preferred), Benefits, Pay. That seems reasonable. Thus we will not have Qualifications or Skills separate; we will put both basic and preferred under Requirements. But we need to ensure we don't miss any content like "Computer literacy, especially proficiency with GraphPad Prism, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and scientific software." That's part of Preferred Qualifications. Thus Requirements section will contain both basic and preferred qualifications as a list. Now Benefits: The paragraph: "As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, well support your journey every step of the way. The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. In Addition To The Base Salary, Amgen Offers a Total Rewards Plan, Based On Eligibility, Comprising Of Health And Welfare Plans For Staff And Eligible Dependents, Financial Plans With Opportunities To Save Towards Retirement Or Other Goals, Work/life Balance, And Career Development Opportunities That May Include A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accountsA discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive planStock-based long-term incentivesAward-winning time-off plansFlexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies." We need to extract benefits: comprehensive employee benefits package details: Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts; discretionary annual bonus program; stock-based long-term incentives; award-winning time-off plans; flexible work models where possible. Also mention Total Rewards Plan comprising Health and Welfare Plans, Financial Plans, Work/life Balance, Career Development Opportunities. We'll make a list. Pay: The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. We need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. It says "The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted." It does not give actual numbers. It says it's posted but not provided in text. According to instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Since the posting does not state the actual range, we should not include Pay section. It only says it's posted elsewhere. So we omit Pay. Schedule: Not present, omit. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits. Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown. We'll produce:

      About the role

      ...

      Responsibilities

      • ...
      • ...

      Requirements

      • Basic Qualifications: Masters degree and 1 year of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience OR Bachelors degree and 3 years of In Vivo Pharmacology and Laboratory Experience
      • Preferred Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, or a related subject area and 4 years of scientific laboratory experience
      • Hands-on experience with preclinical models of cancer
      • Hands-on experience administering drugs through various routes
      • Hands-on experience with in vivo bioluminescence imaging (BLI)
      • Experience collecting blood by different routes and tissues for downstream analysis
      • Flow cytometry and multi-parametric analysis (5+ colors) experience is strongly desired
      • Hands-on experience with molecular, cellular, and ex vivo biological techniques and assays
      • Computer literacy, especially proficiency with GraphPad Prism, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and scientific software
      • Previous drug discovery experience
      • Attention to detail, translating into high-quality results
      • Pro-active, enthusiastic, show desire to learn and be part of a highly productive team
      But we need to ensure we don't duplicate content. The Preferred Qualifications line includes the degree and years; we then list other items. That's fine. Now Benefits:

      Benefits

      • Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
      • Group medical, dental and vision coverage
      • Life and disability insurance
      • Flexible spending accounts
      • Discretionary annual bonus program
      • Stock-based long-term incentives
      • Award-winning time-off plans
      • Flexible work models where possible
      We might also include "Health and Welfare Plans for staff and eligible dependents",

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