Senior Scientist
The Veterinary Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (Vet-VMIC) at The Pirbright Institute has been recently established to help meet an unmet global need for livestock vaccines with a focus on priority diseases for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Vet-VMIC offers an exciting opportunity to bridge the translational gap between research and bringing a product to market, developing expertise in process development, manufacturing, quality management and an overview of the product development pathway. The initial focus of the advertised position is to support the production, quality assurance and serological analyses of viral vectored vaccines and to help develop their pilot scale manufacturing processes. The selected candidate will be supervised by the Vet-VMIC Process Development and Facility Lead and will be expected to support additional research and development (R&D) activities of Vet-VMIC, working flexibly across workstreams in a matrix structure within the Vet-VMIC, providing a unique opportunity to develop new scientific and technical skills on a range of workstreams and vaccine platforms and engage with collaborators and industry.
Main duties and responsibility
The initial focus for the role will be working on the development of suitable vaccine manufacturing processes for viral vectored vaccines. This will involve mammalian cell process development, scale-up of bioreactor processes, and associated downstream processing. The work will incorporate methods, quality assurance, good laboratory practices (GLP) and good manufacturing practices (GMP) aligned with industry.