Company: Lonza

Location: Kingston, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:49:21 GMT

Job description: Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.Lonza is a global multinational company with a broad range of expertise. This opportunity is to join the Personalized Medicine team, based in Kingston, Ontario for a 12-16 month internship. This internship focuses on supporting the Innovation team design concepts for next generation products/features to enhance the Cocoon® platform. The Cocoon® platform is specifically developed to automate the production of cell-based therapies for clinical applications. Currently, the primary application is focused on CAR T cell immunotherapy treatments for cancer-related treatments. For more information, please see the following link:https://www.lonza.com/cocoonThe intern will work on cross-disciplinary projects, combining engineering and cell biology, with the goal of driving innovation in the optimization of an automated bioreactor system related to the manufacture and use of therapeutic cells. The biologist or biology-related engineering student will be responsible for hands-on cell culture support in the development innovative cell manufacturing products. This team member will be expected to assist in the design and execution of experiments. Cross departmental communication, or communication with external parties, may be required. The intern will be responsible for acquiring, analyzing, and communicating experimental data. This person will be accountable for achieving key goals according to a schedule.Key Responsibilities:

• Planning and executing experiments to evaluate and optimize novel cell manufacturing concepts
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver on Innovation projects
• Analyze processes for improvement
• Independently design and execute experiments including data analysis, communication of results and proposals for next steps
• Comply with Quality system requirements and documentation
• Execute tests and documentation required to qualify and launch a new product for cell culture manufacturing
• Maintain accurate and up to date records, including appropriate lab notebook recordings
• Capable of achieving deliverables in a timely fashion
• Writing and revising technical documents including lab protocols and reports
• Quickly learns new biological techniques, including flow cytometry
• Work within a self-directed team environment
• Present results to direct supervisor and members of the team
• Perform other duties as assigned

Every day, Lonza’s products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. For us, this is not only a great privilege, but also a great responsibility. How we achieve our business results is just as important as the achievements themselves. At Lonza, we respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.People come to Lonza for the challenge and creativity of solving complex problems and developing new ideas in life sciences. In return, we offer the satisfaction that comes with improving lives all around the world. The satisfaction that comes with making a meaningful difference.Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.