Senior Research Associate, Bioanalytics at Astellas

Sr. Research Associate, Bioanalytics

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians.  If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com.

About Astellas Gene Therapies

Astellas Gene Therapies is an Astellas Center of Excellence developing genetic medicines for patients with rare, life-threatening diseases. Based on our innovative approach to developing genetic medicines, as well as our industry-leading internal manufacturing capability and expertise, we have become the Astellas Center of Excellence for their newly-created Genetic Regulation Focus Area. We are currently exploring three gene therapy modalities: gene replacement, exon skipping gene therapy, and vectorized RNA knockdown, with plans to expand our focus and geographic reach under Astellas. We are based in San Francisco, with manufacturing and laboratory facilities in South San Francisco and Sanford, North Carolina. For more information, please visit our website: www.astellasgenetherapies.com.

The Role

The primary purpose of the Senior Research Associate in Bioanalytics is to analyze tissue samples taken from our nonclinical research studies dosed with gene therapy candidates. The Senior Research Associate will process tissues for critical endpoints, run analysis on the appropriate instrument, and analyze data outcomes. In addition, the Senior Research Associate will QC data, optimize protocols, and assist in new assay development.

Responsibilities

• Extract protein, DNA and/or RNA from necropsied animal tissue
• Run ddPCR, qPCR, ELISA, Western Blot etc analysis on tissue extracts
• Cell culture, Neutralizing antibody assays and total antibody assays
• Sample analysis assay optimization
• SOP writing
• Data recording and analysis
• QC analysis

This position directly impacts preclinical outcomes including proof of concept, ED50, MED, clinical hold response and IND enabling studies