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The R&D Co-op program provides each student with real-life hands-on experience, coaching and mentoring, networking opportunities, as well as the opportunity to meet people from various schools throughout the country. Each Co-op will be assigned to a single function with a specific project for the 6-month term. The typical Co-op term is from Jan 2025 - Jun 2025.
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The API-Proteins group, within the Therapeutics Develoment and Supply (TDS) function of J&J R&D, is recruiting for a Co-op position, to be located in Malvern, PA. We are looking for a curious and motivated student to join our organization and execute studies investigating challenges in our cell culture platform. In this Co-op role, you will work collaboratively to capture and analyze data, and develop and implement assays to characterize cell culture attributes. Your contributions will help advance cell culture process developments and deepen our platform understanding, enabling improved platform robustness and ensuring the success of manufacturing processes for production of monoclonal antibodies and multispecifics.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing assays and tests for measuring specific cell culture characteristics.
- Coordinating with process development teams to collect data from cell culture bioreactor experiments.
- Aggregating data towards building a dataset for hypothesis testing.
- Using multi-variate analysis to identify and investigate correlations between these measurements, product quality characteristics and cell culture process performance.
- Summarizing findings into an internal report and communicating your work to the API Proteins department.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education:
- Must be actively enrolled in an accredited University for the duration of a co-op assignment pursuing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree or equivalent experience.
- Completion of a minimum of three years towards a BS in Chemical, Biological, Biomedical or Biochemical Engineering; or related science or engineering fields is required.
- Minimum GPA of 2.8 is required.
- Completion of Undergraduate Freshmen year at an accredited University is required.
Experience and Skills:
Required:
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
- At least one semester of experience working within a University research laboratory.
- Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and quantitative skills is required
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills are preferred
- Ability to balance multiple projects and initiatives while performing results
- Must be a self-starter works independently while supplying to the team goals
- Proven leadership/participation with campus programs and/or community service activities is desired
- Extensive PC based skills, including Microsoft Office
Preferred:
- Experience with statistical and data processing software (JMP, Minitab, Matlab, R or equivalent)
- Previous co-op, internship, or industrial experience
- Experience with mammalian cell culture, assay development, and bioreactor operations
- Prior experience with data aggregation, statistical analysis, and multi-variate analysis
- Minimum 3.2 GPA
Other:
- Student must be available to work full-time for the duration of the Co-op.
- Student must be proficient in English.
- Local travel may be required.
- Students must provide their own transportation to/from their work location.
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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