Principal scientist vs postdoctoral associate

Differences between principal scientist and postdoctoral associate duties and responsibilities

Principal scientist example responsibilities.

• Manage pediatric dose development project, technology transfer project and alternate API supplier qualification project on budget and on schedule
• Provide development of and line support for assign immunoassay reagents, calibrators and controls.
• Transfer controls to manufacturing for product launch and include all require studies, testing and documentation under GMP guidelines.
• Maintain several lab documents for ISO certification.
• Understand drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics and design stable molecules.
• Image visualization and manipulation of background plates for animation and post-processing.
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Postdoctoral associate example responsibilities.

• Develop and manage third party claim investigations and contractor remedial oversight for various insurance companies.
• Co-Authore NIH grant proposal on membrane protein folding.
• Participate in writing research grant applications including NIH and NSF.
• X-ray protein crystallographic studies on the structures of antibodies and DNA.
• Purify DNA from subject blood samples and organize the genome screen.
• Complete mice handling training and currently using CRISPR technology to knockout genes in cell lines.
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