Virology Associate

**Virology Associate**

**Responsibilities**:

- Designing, performing and analyzing experiments independently
- Assay optimization and development
- Routine culture and care of human cell cultures and cell lines
- Virus propagation, purification and analysis
- PCR based analysis (real time, digital droplet, etc) of cellular and viral gene expression
- Southern blot analysis of HBV cccDNA
- Western blot based determination of protein expression levels
- ELISA based monitoring of protein levels in animal sera and cell culture supernatants
- Nucleic acid and protein extraction from cell cultures and animal tissue samples
- Assisting scientists with additional techniques with direct supervision
- Routine molecular biology work
- Quantification of biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins)
- Data analysis and interpretation (Microsoft Excel, Graphpad PRISM, etc)
- Writing of research reports derived from the performed studies (as part of a team)
- Identifying novel drug targets and developing methods to exploit those targets (as part of a team)

**Requirements**:

- B.S. or related degree in biology or a closely related discipline
- 2 years of relevant research experience in virology
- Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry is beneficial
- Ability to conduct modern molecular virology/biology experiments as part of a team
- Willingness to work under BSL2/3 conditions with infectious agents is required
- Experience in molecular virology
- Experience in PCR based detection of gene
- Experience protein level determination by Western blot and ELISA based assay
- Experience in mammalian cell culture
- Experience in nucleic acid and protein extraction from cell and tissue samples and quantification
- Experience in hepatitis B virus is beneficial
- Highly collaborative team focused approach to scientific research
- **Prior hepatitis B vaccination**

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