Research Scientist I, Assay Development & Screening

RESEARCH SCIENTIST I – BIOCHEMICAL ASSAY DEVELOPMENT & HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING (HTS) in Buffalo, NY

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives 

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

Join a team of highly skilled scientist and work in a fast-paced customer focused environment to conduct research in support of discovering and advancing new drug candidates.  Build on your education and experience by developing practical knowledge and skills under the mentorship of skilled scientist and learn to operate state of the art instrumentation for 384 and 1536 well plate-based assays using a wide variety of detection techniques from simple absorbance or time resolved fluorescence to RapidFire solid phase extraction mass spectrometry for enzymatic, cellular and biomolecule interaction binding assay.   

Principal responsibilities may include the development and characterization of biochemical or cellular assays for testing of natural product and synthetic samples; automation of assays and high throughput screening; potency and selectivity testing; analysis and interpretation of assay development, high throughput screening and potency data. A major component in the scientist's performance rating will be based on productivity, teamwork and cooperation.

Join our talented workforce, where a commitment to excellence and a customer focused attitude is everything. We pursue excellence because our work has the power to improve patients’ lives with the pharmaceuticals we develop and manufacture.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment) 
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities 
• Education reimbursement
• 401k program
• Pension (for union employees)
• Learning platform

And more! 

In this role you will: 

• Contribute to pre-clinical Drug Discovery research projects.
• Assist in the development of assays for bioactivity screening and their transfer to robotic systems for high throughput screening.
• Assist with the preparation of compound libraries for internal and customer screening projects.
• Assist in the development and testing of HPLC/UPLC and LC/MS methods for a wide variety of applications from proteomics to protein intact mass and small molecule protein or nucleic acid binding.
• Performance of high throughput and secondary screening of sample collections and generation of high-quality screening data.
• Assist in the analysis, interpretation and presentation to customers the results of assay development experiments, screening and potency testing.
• Develop and effectively apply a broad spectrum of practical laboratory skills; including molecular biology, cell culture, biochemistry, assay development, in depth analysis of bioactivity data and the use of automated equipment.
• Effectively utilize standard laboratory equipment including hand pipettes, balances, pH meters, plate readers and calculators.

Education and/or Experience

Required

• Bachelors with a major in Biology or Biochemistry, or equivalent industrial experience
• Academic laboratory experience conducting molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, assay development and validation.
• Computer training in the use of standard office software applications and databases

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Biology or Biochemistry or 2 years of industrial experience

Salary: $53,000/year.

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.

All interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.

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Salary : $53,000