Post-Doctoral Fellow-Protein Engineering

Post-Doctoral Fellow-Protein Engineering Job Type: Full-Time Location: Waltham, MA Job Description:

Company Overview: Alkermes plc is a fully integrated, global biopharmaceutical company that applies its scientific expertise and proprietary technologies to develop innovative medicines that improve patient outcomes. The company has a diversified portfolio of more than 20 commercial drug products and a substantial clinical pipeline of product candidates that address central nervous system (CNS) disorders such as addiction, schizophrenia and depression. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Alkermes plc has a U.S. headquarters and R&D center in Waltham, Massachusetts and manufacturing and R Gainesville, Georgia; and Wilmington, Ohio. For more information, please visit Alkermes' website at .

Position Description: Alkermes is searching for a highly talented postdoctoral fellow responsible for developing and executing analytical, biochemical, and biophysical techniques in support of the development of proprietary platform technologies for our protein therapeutic discovery efforts.

KEY DUTIES:
• Develop proprietary platform technologies for our internal biologics efforts
• Advance and extend our core competencies in protein expression/characterization
• Identify additional technological opportunities
• Support IP protection and publications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Protein design & engineering
• In-depth understanding of protein structure-function, with knowledge in modeling
• Bacterial and mammalian protein expression and purification
• Protein characterization (chromatographic, spectroscopic, biophysical)
• Experience with protein-small molecule conjugation chemistry
• Assay development and execution (in vitro, cell-based, ex vivo)
• Experimental design and analysis