QC Bioassay Lab Head

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

We are seeking a QC Bioassay Lab Head to join our Bioassay Development and QC team. The QC Bioassay Lab Head will lead the ongoing establishment of a new QC Bioassay laboratory and then oversee and coordinate the GMP QC release and stability potency testing of biologics for early development programs. The level of this position is equivalent to a Principal Research Scientist I.

This role will support the development and evaluation of newly discovered oncology and immunology drugs and existing clinical candidates, including antibody therapeutics, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), multi-specific biologics, and other complex biologic modalities.

This position is within a team of highly experienced scientists and managers who have directly enabled the development/IND submissions of 20+ novel oncology drugs and successfully filed two BLAs. In this role you will have unique exposure to a significant breadth and depth of drug development experience, numerous cross-functional interactions, and opportunities to grow and develop in your career.

Responsibilities:

In this lab-based role, your major responsibilities will include:

• Lead the ongoing efforts to establish a new QC Bioassay lab at the South San Francisco site, which will focus on QC target-binding potency assays (ELISA, TR-FRET, etc) and cell-based functional potency assays (cell-killing, reporter assays, effector function, etc).
• Interact and collaborate across multiple sites, functions, and groups (such as QC, QA, Facilities, IT, external vendors, etc) to enable establishment of a new QC Bioassay lab.
• Ensure all elements of the QC Bioassay Lab (plate readers, plate washers, software, reagents, cells,