Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow- Vaccine Preclinical Development - Experimental Medicine

Our company is a global health care leader with a portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. 

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The Research Laboratories Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large pharmaceutical company, postdoctoral researchers will be positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.

The fellow will join a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment with access to established experimental and computational capabilities needed to support the project.

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative candidate with expertise in virology, immunology, computational biology, or a related field to join the Vaccine Preclinical Development group at our West Point, PA site. As a postdoctoral fellow, you will work within a highly collaborative research environment to investigate the biology of latent herpesvirus reservoirs in the context of immune dysregulation and disease-associated phenotypes.

• →Develop and implement experimental strategies to enrich and/or characterize immune cells from peripheral blood
• →Perform and optimize single-cell and high-dimensional immunology assays
• →Contribute to the development of computational frameworks leading to biomarker discovery
• →Present findings at internal and external scientific meetings and contribute to manuscript preparation and publication
• →Collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams spanning immunology, virology, and translational research

• Must currently hold a PhD OR
• Receive a Ph.D. no later than spring 2027
• Ph.D. in Immunology, Virology, Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, or a related field

• No more than 3 previous years of postdoctoral experience

• Expertise in immunology, virology, host-pathogen biology, or related fields
• Expertise in single cell transcriptomics (Flex Apex, CITE-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics, etc.)
• Proficient in end-to-end computational analysis of complex biological datasets, with exposure to single-cell transcriptomic or other omics data
• Experience with flow cytometry
• Strong background in experimental design, data interpretation, and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while contributing effectively in a collaborative team environment
• Strong scientific writing, presentation, and communication skills
• Strong publication record or evidence of productive research accomplishments

• Expertise in herpesvirus biology
• Expertise in lymphocyte responses to vaccination or infection
• Familiarity or experience with TCR/BCR repertoire sequencing and analysis
• Familiarity or experience with novel vaccine adjuvants and/or vaccine platforms
• Familiarity with BSL2 level viral pathogens
• Familiarity with biomarker development and/or translational analysis of clinical cohort datasets

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