GSK job opportunities

GSK have two job opportunities in their Biopharm Development Department –

Cell Line Selection Scientist:  Leading from the lab the successful candidate will be confident in generating CHO cell performance and biochemical data and linking this to cell line performance criteria by working closely with our Cell Line Development, Data Science and OneStream groups to support our Next Generation Cell Line Development capability.

CHO Cell Biologist: The successful candidate must be confident in seeking, critically evaluating and where appropriate, embedding, innovative technologies into our cell line selection workflows.  Leading from the lab they will link biochemical and ‘omic data to cell line performance criteria by working closely with our Cell Line Development, Data Science and OneStream groups to support our Next Generation Cell Line Development capability.

Full details can be found HERE

Funding announcement

Funding pre-announcement: addressing limitations in manufacturing nucleic acid therapeutics. MRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, Innovate UK, UKRI.

The consortium can include academic and industrial organisations in the UK and abroad. The lead organisation must be UK-based.

Consortium proposals should demonstrate how the research outputs could benefit the wider UK research and manufacturing community.

You are encouraged to explore opportunities to collaborate with the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA) Hub, a new research centre in the UK.

Total fund £6 million.

Further details – https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/addressing-limitations-in-manufacturing-nucleic-acid-therapeutics/

Webinars in Cell & Gene Therapy: from concept to clinical use.

Organised by the Advanced Therapeutics Medicinal Products focus group of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Science (APS).

May 12th, 19th & 26th 2021, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Registration and further information – https://apsgb.co.uk/event/virtual-webinar-cell-gene-therapy/

BBSRC workshops in AI and computing in the biosciences

Following publication of UKRI’s AI review BBSRC are running two workshops on AI and computing in the biosciences that could be of interest to the bioprocessing community.

 

UKRI has now published the document ’Transforming our world with AI’ 

https://www.ukri.org/about-us/what-we-do/ai-review-transforming-our-world-with-ai/#contents-list

 

UKRI-BBSRC AI in the biosciences community event, 19thMay, open for registration 

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/news/events/2021/artificial-intelligence-in-the-biosciences-virtual-community-building-meeting/

 

UKRI-BBSRC Workshop on Computing in the Biosciences, 29th April 2021, open for registration

 https://bbsrc.ukri.org/news/events/2021/ukri-bbsrc-workshop-on-computing-in-the-biosciences/

 

 

Webinar – April 15th, 4pm

Pushing the boundaries of immunoassay performance: Optimising the conjugation of a novel alkaline phosphatase.

Speakers include :Dr Paul Bennett, SEKISUI Diagnostics, Alex Buckley, Dr David Beal & Prof Mark Smales, University of Kent.

RegistrationHERE