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Department Description
Drug Product Development group (part of the GSK Research and Development division) is responsible for developing robust drug product formulations and manufacturing processes for small and large molecule drug products.
This position is in the Medicine Development and Supply department, located at the Upper Providence site.
Job Description
The Lyophilization Process Development Co-op student will be part of a team developing fundamental understanding of lyophilization for injectable formulations, with a particular emphasis on suspensions.
Key learning opportunities include:
- Use pharmaceutical formulation, engineering, and materials science knowledge of colloidal science to inform the design of novel and robust lyophilized drug products.
- Work closely with the process modelling team members to use computational modelling approaches to support lyophilization process development according to Quality by Design principles.
- Regularly update manager on progress made on research topic and document results / analysis in reports.
- Comply with GMP requirements for recording experiments and simulation files, and writing reports, including scientific review and data checking.
- Comply with the requirements of Quality, Safety, and GSK policies and procedures to ensure that GSK intellectual property is protected.
Minimum Qualifications
- Pursuing a PhD degree in Pharmaceutics, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or equivalent experience (preferably in the second or third year of PhD).
- Knowledge of lyophilization cycle development.
- Hands on experience working on freeze drying of solutions or suspensions.
- Must be able to work full-time (35-40 hours/week) throughout the 6-month co-op (September 2024 ~ March 2025).
- Must have an active student status within a PhD program. Post-doctoral candidates are not eligible.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of lyophilization optimization equipment, such as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
- Basic experience in model development using modelling packages such as Matlab, gPROMS, Python or similar
Eligibility Requirements
- Must successfully pass a drug screen and background check prior to assignment target start date.
- If your skillsets are a match for this role, you will be contacted by our recruitment team with next steps to complete our internal World of GSK Assessment.
- Please note, you must receive a passing score to move forward in the interview process. Once your assessment is complete, a recruiter will review your results and be in touch with next steps.
Benefits
- While GSK embraces a flexible work environment, we do require certain positions to be onsite. Candidates who are hired for an on-site role or hybrid role, and reside outside of 50-miles from their assigned work location, are eligible for relocation stipend. This is a one-time payment to help offset housing & relocation expenses. Please refer to the position details for the requirements of each position.
- GSK Interns and Co-ops are offered a competitive hourly pay rate and benefits. Please note, benefits eligibility determined the month following date of hire.
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