Co-op, Biologic Therapeutics Discovery and Engineering
Core
6-month co-op role characterizing antibody drug candidates and performing in vitro experiments to support therapeutic neurodegenerative disease programs.
Role type
Biologic therapeutics discovery and engineering co-op
Builds
Antibody drug candidates for neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disease indications
Domain
Biotechnology / Biologics / Neurodegenerative diseases
Required skills
Cell culture, sterile technique, molecular cloning, PCR, qRT-PCR, DNA/RNA extraction, plate-based protein binding assays (ELISA, MSD), flow cytometry
Preferred skills
Biophysical protein binding characterization (SPR, BLI), Python scripting, machine learning model training, AI/ML de novo protein design
Technologies
Biacore, Octet, PyTorch, scikit-learn, TensorFlow
Responsibilities
Perform in vitro experiments to biophysically characterize antibody drug candidates, validate clinical targets for cell-specific drug delivery, execute discovery and optimization campaigns to nominate lead biologic drug candidates
Seniority
Internship
