Lentivirus Upstream Process Experienced Scientist

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Biotherapeutics R&D

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
US026 PA Spring House - 1400 McKean Rd

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for a Lentivirus Upstream Process Experienced Scientist to be in Spring House, PA.

You will be responsible for:


* Acts as a developing individual contributor in the execution of Biotherapeutic projects to support development programs.


* Assists with the design of lead biologic candidates and works to implement next generation targeting technologies for a variety of Biotherapeutic modalities.


* Independently designs experiment/analyses based on interpretations and integration of emerging literature or other sources.


* Assists in developing recommendations for improving standard procedures.


* Contributes to the preparation and submission of technical reports, patent applications, protocols and manuscripts with detailed outcomes and results of research findings as relevant.


* Coaches more junior colleagues in techniques, processes and responsibilities.


* Understands and applies Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives in day-to-day interactions with team.


* Integrate into the upstream process development team and focus on lentiviral vector-based products such as cell and gene therapy within DPDS, API.


* This role involves working with the development team leads and scientists, taking on an individual role of performing, maintaining, and monitoring cell cultures while engaging in a team role to meet development objectives with some supervision.


* You will contribute to experiment planning to scale up viral vector-based processes from shake flasks to bioreactors, assist in identifying and establishing process parameters and ranges, performing planned experiments, optimizing upstream cell culture process steps, perform data analysis for early and late-stage products, ...