Lab Scientist I - Immunology and Immunotoxicology

Lapcorp Drug Development's work in developing new pharmaceutical solutions has an incredible impact on millions of lives worldwide. Be a part of this life-saving work and help improve patients' lives while growing your career.

As a Lab Scientist, you will participate in all procedures in the operational areas of the Immunology and Immunotoxicology (I&I) department. These include support to Safety Assessment (SA) and standalone studies over a wide range of platforms (consisting of flow cytometry, plate based immunoassays, and cell based assays), supporting an enhanced solutions based approach to Client requests.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Organizes and conducts routine and non-routine sample analysis in compliance with applicable methods, protocols, SOPs, and regulatory agency guidelines.

• Documents work and maintains study documentation and laboratory records.

• Sets up, operates and performs routine and non-routine maintenance on general equipment.

• Provides input and participates in project meetings, plans, monitors and guides project work.

• Performs QC review of data.

• Develops working knowledge to assist in performing validations of various Immunotoxicology assays.

• Displays understanding of theory and ability to set up and perform practical requirements for routine and non-routine assays and for the instruments used 

• Ensures that chemicals and reagents in use, are correctly labelled and associated documentation is available.

• Reports any difficulties, unexpected findings and/or deviations that may affect the integrity of the data to Study Director/Manager, Principal Investigator/Contributing Scientist and/or management of and participates in corrective action of problems

• Assist with the monitoring of quality control trends and troubleshoot alongside the SME and implements any actions.

• Support training and assists less experience staff, prioritize daily workloads on a daily basis contributing to a team environment and culture of care.

• Develops knowledge to assist in writing text for methods or protocols.

• Participates in process improvement initiatives.

• Participates in client visits/audits as required.

We offer excellent training with extensive benefits including medical/dental/vision plans, 24 days of PTO in the first year, tuition reimbursement, 401K with 5% matching, employee stock purchase plan and much more!