Immunoassay / Biomarker Scientist

6500! That’s the number of associates in the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR). This division is the innovation engine of Novartis, focusing on powerful new technologies that have the potential to help produce therapeutic breakthroughs for patients. The Pre-Clinical Safety (PCS) group in NIBR provides world class preclinical safety profiling and assessment for optimal drug discovery, development and commercialization, with state-of-the-art regulatory compliance.<br><br>We are seeking a scientist to join the PCS Biomarker group in Translational Medicine. In this role, you would be supporting complex modality safety across a broad mix of therapeutic areas. You will support laboratory investigations of project and platform specific issues through design, execution, and interpretation of experimental work.<br><br>What you’ll be doing:<br>•Work with senior scientific staff to execute analytical aspects of study protocols, such as: laboratory analyses (i.e., specialized biomarker assays; e.g., single- and multi-plex ELISAs, bead-based immunoassays, and quantitative PCR), data reporting, and interpretation for preclinical drug safety studies. Recognizing analytical and experimental design challenges and actively providing insight into solutions.<br>•Perform data analysis, statistics, data quality testing and result verification, and graphical representation of data for reports and presentations.<br>•Based on experimental results, provide input to internal and external publications including writing relevant sections of study protocols and reports. Communicate results and conclusions to project meetings.<br>Your responsibilities will include, but not limited to:<br>•Design and execute experiments and identify next steps based on analysis of own data and data from other lab contributors. Interpret and communicate results.<br>•Serve as team member on activities to support project teams and collaborate with research scientists across Novartis global platform and disease areas.<br>•Assist in method development and validation of new methodologies and instrumentation.<br>•Assist in the preparation of protocols and reports and participate in data science activities.<br><br>[#video#https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIxJdzIn0mE{#400,300#}#/video#]