SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology organisation, based in Zuid-Holland Netherlands.

The Company

The Vaccine Technology group is a part of the Viral Vaccine department and investigates alternative vaccine vectors and platforms to complement the in-house Adenoviral based platform.

Role Description

As all-round technician you can immediately contribute to diverse projects at hand. You will be working under the supervision of a senior scientist on a program to investigate the production, transgene expression and stability of a novel, viral vaccine vector derived from vaccinia virus.

Responsibilities

- Cell culturing
- Viral assays (plaque assay, ddPCR, neutralization)
- Molecular techniques such as cloning, DNA/RNA isolation, PCR, sequencing (Sanger and NGS)
- Western blotting
- Enzymatic assays
- Production/purification of recombinant viral vectors

Requirements

- BSc in relevant background
- Must have minimal 1 years working experience with one or more of the mentioned methods
- must have demonstrable experience in molecular biology, cell culture, viral assays.
- Experience with protein analyses such as ELISA, FACS or BioLayer Interferometry are a plus

Other information

This will be a position for 6 months to cover a maternity leave with no guarantee of extension.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Cees Roffelsen.