Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The main responsibilities will be to contribute to the conception and execution of multi-disciplinary research in immune-related projects and to provide molecular and cellular immunology scientific and technical support for the Industry and Innovation & Advance Methodology Programs under the direction of the Principal Scientist or Principal Consultant. This includes experimental project design, carrying out experiments and quantitative analyses, preparing progress and milestones reports, and presenting research results in internal and external meetings.

The tasks required to be undertaken include:

· Provide technical and scientific input and guidance in immune-related projects

· Conceive, design and conduct flow cytometry and immunology assays for different projects

· Develop and independently execute immunological and biochemical assays needed to determine immunogenicity

· Conducting ex vivo experiments to assess function of different immune cell types, such as T cells and NK cells or dendritic cells

· Development and execution of human primary immune cell-based assays for determining activity of therapeutic proteins

· Design and development of assays to interrogate immune cell signalling

· Critically analyze and interpret data

· Contribute to optimizing protocols and establishing new methods

· Provide project updates to Principal Scientist or Principal Consultant

· Prioritize experiments in order to meet deadlines

· Design follow-up experiments leading to project advancement

· Train staff scientists and technicians

· Participate to internal or external meetings/conferences whether immunology-related projects need to be presented

· Discuss scientific results with other company employees, contributing to multiple collaborative research projects

· Professional and responsible data documentation and archiving

· Perform statistical analysis and presentation of data with appropriate software (e.g. Excel GraphPad Prism, FlowJo)

· Prepare milestone reports and manuscripts

· Participating in scientific lab meetings and the organization of workshops

· Proposing new innovative projects and/or techniques