Associate Scientist II, 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

The Drug Product Development group within AbbVie is a global organization responsible for developing and characterizing drug product formulations and manufacturing processes for biologic therapeutics (antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), neurotoxins, and novel biologic formats) from preclinical development through clinical proof of concept.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Scientist II to join our team at our Bay Area site in South San Francisco, CA. This role is an onsite role in a lab-based function. To be successful candidates must enjoy and thrive in an onsite, highly collaborative lab environment with daily face-to-face cross functional interactions between scientists.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Develop and optimize biologic (antibodies, antibody fragments, bispecifics, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), neurotoxins, cytokines, peptides, etc) drug product formulations to enable clinical studies in a phase appropriate manner.

• Independently design, investigate, identify, and execute formulation development, drug product process development, and in-use studies to ensure formulation stability and dose accurate administration.
• Perform routine and complex tasks independently and competently and modifies plans in alignment with manager and team. Seeks technical input when needed.
• Investigate, identify, optimize new protocols, formulations, characterization methods, and techniques to promote innovation while ensuring reliability, reproducibility and scale-ability.
• Interpret results and draw conclusions from experiments, noting significant deviations and scientific questions, and suggests and pursue relevant experiments.
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