Senior Scientist CMC, API - Process Chemistry
Monte Rosa Therapeutics, Inc
- Basel
- Unbefristet
- Vollzeit
- Delivery of external drug substance and drug product including scale-up, manufacturing and material supply activities from preclinical phase onwards with high level of independence.
- Synthesis & formulation assessment and design, trouble shooting, process and analytical development.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to manufacture drug substance including process development, procurement of raw materials, phase appropriate analytical activities.
- Management of timelines, resources and budgets.
- On assigned projects, act as CMC lead and point of contact in cross functional project teams by participating in project meetings and provide regular updates.
- Liaise with medicinal chemistry, toxicology and clinical teams to seamlessly advance our small molecule development candidates into preclinical & clinical development.
- Manage physico-chemical and solid state studies of small molecule drug substances including polymorphism, solubility, early formulation studies, etc. to assess developability and formulation strategies for clinical development and commercialization.
- Identify, select and manage appropriate Contract Development & Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) for appropriate process development work and for the GMP supply of drug substance and drug product.
- Prepare, review, edit CMC regulatory and quality documents (batch records, analytical validations, reports and protocols).
- Liaise with the regulatory team for drafting and reviewing documents for INDs and other regulatory submissions.
- Responsible for drug supply chain in preclinical and clinical trials.
- PhD or MSc in Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical sciences or related scientific discipline
- 4-7 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry in areas such as: process development, chemical or analytical development & scale-up, manufacturing (pilot or large scale), pre-formulation/formulation or CMC with small molecule drugs.
- Sound knowledge of organic chemistry and process development of small molecule API.
- Understanding of technical development needs from preclinical stage till clinical phases.
- Experience of GMP manufacturing drug substances and/or drug products.
- Experience of managing CDMOs and complex supply chains.
- Other desirable experience: large molecule development and formulation; experience with different pharmaceutical dosage forms (e.g. tablets, capsules, parenteral, etc.), support of clinical development (Phase 1 through Phase 3) including IND, CTA and NDA filings; FDA and EMEA regulations are considered a plus.
- Needs to be highly effective in cross-functional and cross-site teams
- Flexibility, problem solving skills and ability to adapt to a highly dynamic environment.