Scientist I, Biologics Drug Product Development

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Scientist I, Biologics Drug Product Development 

Position Description:

The incumbent in this role will support the formulation development of protein biologics from early development (pre-clinical/First-In-Human candidates) through commercialization, with a specific focus on neurotoxins for therapeutics and aesthetic use. 

This position requires laboratory work in areas requiring select agents and Toxins access (i.e., Biosafety level 2 laboratories). Access to and use of select agents is regulated by federal policies. Therefore, the candidate must conduct all work activities in compliance with AbbVie internal and applicable regulatory requirements. AbbVie internal requirements include compliance with ethics, environmental health and safety, financial, human resources, and general business policies, requirements, and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Execute formulation composition and drug product process development studies for sterile liquids, lyophilized, and pre-filled dosage forms.
• Manufacture drug product formulation batches for evaluating formulation stability and/or to support animal studies.
• Conduct clinical in-use studies to guide dose solution administration.
• Interpret results and draw conclusions from multistage experiments; note significant deviations and propose relevant new experiments.
• Generate high-quality data based on sound scientific principles and prepare formulation data summaries, technical reports, and scientific presentations.
• Support functional technical initiatives by investigating and developing novel experimental approaches and/or technologies in the field of drug product development.