For over 25 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together, each bringing our own unique perspectives to make an impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly drive science forward.
The Research Associate role is responsible for the delivery of antibodies and processes within our Antibody Development Platform (ADP) team in Cambridge. ADP is part of a wider global team discovering antibodies to a wide variety of targets for use within Abcam’s catalogue, and for external customers (including leaders from biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry). We provide high quality, high-performance antibodies utilising a number of approaches, including RabMAb® technology (our patented antibody technology) and Single B-cell cloning.
This position reports to the ADP Scientist and is part of the Antibody Development Platform (ADP) team located in Cambridge, United Kingdom and will be on-site. At Abcam, our vision is to be the most influential life sciences company for researchers worldwide.
In this role you will have the opportunity to
- Support multiple aspects of the antibody generation process for monoclonal antibody projects, using techniques such as: Mammalian Cell Culture, FACS, Molecular Biology as well as ELISA, Octet or HTRF.
- Use liquid handling automation to support high throughput sampling and assays.
- Contribute to and implement process improvements and optimization on current processes.
The essential requirements of the job include
- You will be educated to at least degree level in a life sciences-related subject.
- Our ideal candidate will have some experience working in a scientific setting either within an academic lab or in industry.
- The candidate will ideally have experience or knowledge of an aspect of antibody discovery processes such Hybridoma or single B-cell Cloning.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
- Other plate based assay formats such as HTRF or Octet.
- Other Antibody discovery processes such as Phage display, NGS or in silico development.
Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.
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