Infectious Disease Scientist

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities:
The Merck Infectious Disease and Vaccines group is seeking applicants for a position in the HIV Biomarkers area.
The job will entail several facets of HIV biomarker work including:
Receipt, logging, and processing of patient blood samples into PBMCs.
Cell isolations from HIV+ human tissue biopsies.
Running of biomarker assays on the above samples (including pPCR, standard and ultra-sensitive ELISAs, and potentially flow cytometry).
Assisting with development, validation, and running of novel biomarker assays.
Testing of test compounds in primary cell HIV assays. The job is fast-paced and will be very much hands-on in the laboratory. Handling of HIV+ materials (lab strains as well as patient-derived samples) is a job requirement. Great organizational skills, communication, time management, and the ability to learn to operate state-of-the-art laboratory equipment and automation are also required.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have at least a bachelors degree in a life science or bioengineering and 2 years of hands-on laboratory experience and able to execute experiments independently after initial training from a more experienced lab member. Experience with cell culture, blood processing, and immunoassays is strongly preferred. Other desired experience includes primary cell culture and flow cytometry.
Company Description About Merck:
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (Merck) is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company. Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures.

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join usand start making y our impact today.

Company Description

About Merck:Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (Merck) is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company.

Merck discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of innovative products to improve human health, directly and through its joint ventures.Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as saving and improving lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity.

You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery or scientific genius to work in collaboration with other like-minded colleagues to pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling the most challenging diseases of our time.

Our team is always evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join usand start making y our impact today.
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