Research Assistant

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Job Description

About you: 

You are a collaborative, impact-focused problem solver who wants to be part of a dynamic team dedicated to creating and commercializing novel approaches to global challenges in healthcare and sustainability. You want the opportunity to explore your scientific interests and apply your knowledge to tackle ambitious projects in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial-minded environment with resources and support from top-notch scientific, operations, and administrative professionals. You enjoy working with highly motivated, diverse teams and leveraging your expertise to create innovations that can change the world.

About the role:

We are looking for a Research Assistant III to join the Brain Targeting Program (BTP) team and support antibody brain shuttle compound screening and validation in vivo and in vitro. The mission of the Wyss BTP is to develop a robust modular brain delivery platform that is able to deliver large-molecule therapeutics for diverse brain diseases. We aim to help expand the pipeline of CNS drugs by making our platform broadly available to companies, academics and non-profit organizations. 

Reporting to a Scientist on the team, you will support in vivo functional screening studies of brain shuttle antibodies via close collaboration with the veterinary team; assist in developing, troubleshooting, and standardizing in-house developed in vitro assays to assess antibody shuttle function and developability; perform tissue processing and downstream analytical assays, such as ELISAs; analyze and summarize datasets; o prepare figures and presentations; contribute to overall lab organization and compliance.