Principal Scientist- Sterile and Drug Product Development
GSKAbout the role
Business Introduction
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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Position Summary
You will lead scientific work to develop safe, stable, and manufacturable sterile drug products, including long-acting injectables, mAbs and oligonucleotides. You will design and run studies, interpret results, and make clear recommendations. You will work closely with colleagues across scientific disciplines, regulatory, and supply teams. We value curiosity, clear communication, and a focus on patients. This role offers growth, real impact on development programs, and the chance to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Design, plan and execute formulation and process development studies for sterile and complex drug products.-Develop/optimize long-acting injectables, antibody drug conjugate (ADC), protein or oligonucleotide formulations.
Develop phase appropriate formulations to support clinical studies and ultimately commercialization.
Interpret experimental results and provide clear recommendations to project teams.
Lead stability, compatibility, and container-closure assessments to support regulatory submissions.
Prepare technical reports, study protocols, and documentation needed for product development and transfer.
Lead drug product development matrix teams and/or member of matrix teams supporting product development.
Work across functional teams and external partners to support scale-up, technology transfer, and launch readiness, and participate in preparing regulatory documents.
Contributes to Drug Product Development strategies.
Propose and deliver innovative approaches to achieve project goals
Mentor colleagues, review data quality, and contribute to continuous improvement of lab practices.
Opportunities to publish research and influence industry approaches.
Why You?
This role is hybrid and located in the United States. You will be expected to work on-site part of the week, with flexibility to work remotely for other tasks. Reasonable travel may be required.
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
PhD in Pharmaceutics, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, or related scientific discipline; or MS with 5+ years’ relevant experience; or BS with 10+ years’ relevant experience.
Experience in formulation and process development for sterile, long acting injectables, protein or complex drug products.
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