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At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job summary
Our Department of Chromatographic Bioanalysis here in Edinburgh uses advanced hyphenated chromatography techniques within a world class facility to support the quantitative analysis of drug candidates in discovery and development. Several opportunities exist for Industrial Placement candidates to develop their laboratory skills while contributing to the development of Human therapies.
What your placement will include
• Supporting the Responsible Scientist in the execution of Bioanalytical studies within a Good Laboratory Practice regulated laboratory.
• Processing of biological samples arising from pre-clinical and clinical studies.
• Set up and operation of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometer instrumentation.
• Integration and regression analysis using a Laboratory Information Management System.
Interested students should have:
• At least 2 years academic learning working towards an Honours degree (or equivalent) in Chemistry or a related discipline.
• A desire to pursue a career in a Bioanalytical Chemistry.
• Strong communication skills, positive attitude and a drive to succeed.
What you can expect from us:
- World Class Training
- Competitive salary
- Private Health Care
- Pension scheme including 8% employer contribution
- Personal life insurance equivalent to 6 times your annual salary
- Employee discount scheme across hundreds of retailers
- Paid opportunity to volunteer for one day each year
- On site discounted canteen
- Fitness suite and fitness lessons at the work place
About safety assessment
Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 17,000 employees within 90 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. And in 2019, revenue increased to $2.62 billion.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of ~85% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2019.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
