Senior Associate Scientist, Viral Vaccines

About the role

Why Patients Need You Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best-in-class medicines to patients around the world.

Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a team to support the preclinical evaluation and early clinical development of mRNA and protein based viral vaccines.
• You will be responsible for performing and developing immunoassays supporting various viral programs to monitor the immune responses elicited by vaccine candidates.
• You will be using your scientific knowledge to adapt and develop standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience and consulting others.
• You should possess a strong work ethic and collaborative spirit and be adaptable to fast-paced environments.
• It is your innovative scientific temperament that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
• Perform assays to analyze immune responses to vaccine candidates that include (but are not limited to) cell culture, neutralization assays, other functional antibody assays, Luminex, and ELISAs in BSL-2 environments.
• Generate, characterize and tract critical reagents for preclinical bio-functional studies to support vaccine development.
• Assist with preclinical bio-functional assay development and train other analysts on established technologies.
• Apply technical skills and functional knowledge to complete projects/assignments independently and proactively.
• Perform data analysis; summarize and interpret experimental results and present at team meetings.
• Read scientific and technical literature to stay current in the field and to bring new and improved technologies to the laboratory.
• Maintain laboratory notebooks in compliance with the Pfizer Laboratory Notebook Policy.
• Stay current on all departmental and corporate training.