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Senior Scientist

Meridian Bioscience Inc.
City of London
3 weeks ago
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Meridian Life Science, (Life Science division) of Meridian Bioscience is a developer and manufacturer of raw materials for both immuno and molecular diagnostics applications. Our approach to new product development is to enable our customers with new technical capabilities while ensuring market leading performance through a large portfolio of antigens, antibodies, blockers, molecular enzymes, nucleotides, and optimized mixes for various nucleic acids amplification technologies.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Scientist to join the R&D team and help us drive our vision. Our diverse and proactive culture will allow successful candidates to discover and create cutting edge solutions.

The Senior Scientist will take part to Meridian’s new product development efforts, focusing on expanding the molecular products portfolio. The position holder will lead the technical development of new molecular reagents and associated methodologies, while working according to ISO 13485 standards.

The role may provide on a project need basis supervision for other team members, planning and coordinating various experimental work and troubleshooting.

Duties and Responsibilities
Assist the R&D Manager/Team Leader on a variety of scientific projects, including new product development, assay design, data generation and troubleshooting.
Lead the technical development of new products, being responsible of product design, experimental project planning and execution and communication of findings and progress to different stakeholders.
Design, develop, and verify designs for a wide range of molecular biology reagents, including PCR, isothermal amplification, and Next Generation Sequencing applications.
Establish and disseminate technical knowledge and good laboratory practices in the group.
Work to ISO13485 standards and understand their requirements.
Independent planning, execution and troubleshooting of experiments.
Write literature to support product launches.
Keep accurate laboratory records.
Assist with customers’ technical support activities.
Hands-on experience in designing assays or enzymatic reactions using molecular biology technologies (e.g. end-point PCR, real-time PCR, LAMP, NGS)
Experience in protein chemistry (protein design, expression, purification)
Demonstrated expertise in protein characterization (biochemical and/or functional)
Good understanding of chemical principles involved in buffers, stabilizers, enhancers, fluorescent chemistry etc. used with commercial enzymes and enzymes mixtures.
Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to interact effectively with an interdisciplinary group.

Desirable:
Hands-on experience with Design of Experiments or similar methodologies.
Experience in NGS wet chemistry development or workflow optimization.
Experience in molecular diagnostics assay development and optimization.
Knowledge and experience with lyophilization processes.
Experience in carrying out scientific activities within Quality Systems.

Education or Equivalent Experience.
A PhD or equivalent in Protein Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or equivalent in Life Science or Chemistry
3+ years of experience in industry or equivalent in an active research laboratory.

Required:
Demonstrated capability to drive efficiently scientific project to success.
Project management.
Problem-solving skills and ability to adapt quickly to changes

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