Upstream biomanufacturing technician vs biology laboratory assistant

Differences between upstream biomanufacturing technician and biology laboratory assistant duties and responsibilities

Upstream biomanufacturing technician example responsibilities.

• Assist in managing technical and regulatory site visits to the laboratory and interface with QA and RA on all vendor/regulatory audits.
• Assist senior level manufacturing technicians within a cGMP facility in the fermentation and harvest of proprietary biopharmaceuticals for purification and packaging.
• Participate in regulatory inspections and FDA tours.

Biology laboratory assistant example responsibilities.

• Comfort frighten patients and maintain an exceptionally bright professional demeanor to accomplish a procedure that makes most people very uncomfortable.
• Set up gel electrophoresis, clean slides, run experiments.
• Prepare culture media and ELISA samples following standard procedures.
• Prepare stock solutions, media for growing bacteria and yeast, electrophoresis gels and pouring agar plates.
• Aid students independently with laboratory work regarding basic principles of evolution, genetics, ecology, and molecular and cellular biology.
• Supervise and train fellow colleagues in GC, GC-MS, ATR-IR, FTIR, UV/Vis and DSC.
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