Formulations Scientist

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.pe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Eurofins PSS West is looking for a Principal Formulations Scientist to develop and characterize formulations on complex and poorly behaved drug candidates, advance data management and documentation practices, and partner in the innovative application of AI at a client site in San Diego, CA. This scientist combines hands-on lab skills with data-driven, modeling-based assessment of compounds. They are expected to work independently and act as a technical resource for the team.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Design and develop prototype and complex formulations (solutions, suspensions and enabling formulations) for oral, subcutaneous, and/or intravenous (sterile) delivery to support in-vitro and in-vivo studies.
• Formulate and characterize poorly behaved compounds, including those with low solubility or poor stability, and develop strategies to overcome their limitations.
• Contribute to compound risk assessments utilizing physicochemical property information, in vivo performance data, and predictive tools.
• Design and interpret studies of solubility, chemical and physical stability, and in-vitro performance (non-sink dissolution, precipitation).
• Apply analytical techniques (HPLC, DSC, PXRD, spectroscopy), both conceptually and in the lab, to characterize compounds and formulations.
• Use physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) and physiologically based biopharmaceutics modeling (PBBM) tools such as GastroPlus to predict compound and formulation performance.
• Partner in the novel application of AI in the advancement of new molecules.
• Curate data from contract research organizations (CROs) and other external partners.
• Write and review study protocols and technical reports.
• Record work in an ELN, and help develop ELN standards and best practices.

Qualifications

The Ideal Candidate would possess:

• Experience with complex formulations and with formulating and studying poorly behaved compounds
• Experience performing compound risk assessments