I work in research and development My daytoday activities involve running regular screening assays and data analysis I also have done some assay development to improve the sustainability of the regular screening assays I also attend meetings with my
Cell culture work and generating edits in cells using CRISPR technology then using PCR and other techniques to validate the edits Also worked on small projects within the team Mix of lab work and office work writing up reports writing protocols and
I work on the early stage of drug products and conduct routine analysis including liquid chromatography dissolution and Karl Fischer titrations Approximately 60 of my time in spent in the lab with the rest used for write ups and personal development
Planning and executing experiments to test hypotheses and achieve research project aims for university Completion of university assignments within spare time Use of biochemical biophysical assays and protein purification methodologies Attending meet
I worked on a drug project for the year helping to develop and validate analytical methods Then for ten weeks I did a dedicated research project for university which again was in method development I have also undergone work outside of chemistry such as
Developing Analytical Methods day to day is preparing solutions preparing instruments analysing data writing up attending meetings
My role consists of primarily wet lab activities where I expand and maintain immune cells I also treat these cells with cytokines and antibody staining I then keep the cells for a set period of time before analysing them using advanced highthroughput
Working in the lab on developing a new assayoptimising an existing assay including design of experiments planning carrying it out and collecting data Meeting with others to discuss my results what they might mean next steps I was also involved in
I would conduct experiments in a laboratory and then write up my findings from those experiments The key was to seek out findings in a way that would be commercially valuable to the company These experiments would support decisions on what drugs to deve
The development of immunohistochemistry assays to aid in drug development within oncology required a mixture of lab and officebased work A typical week would consist of running experiments in the lab eg western blot immunohistochemistry accompanied
Using methods like MD and FEP to help guide and prioritize the selection of compounds to synthesize Building up SAR knowledge using computational tools Early stage and late stage discovery work
Worked on projects providing engineering support Daily tasks varied a lot depending on where the work was at I did a lot of lab work as well as meetings and analysis
In the morning I would check my emails and ask any questions I had about the work I was doing I would then work on a program up until lunch In the afternoon I would do some training and then try to finish up any programming for the day
Lab based research in structural biology producing protein and compound structures relevant to the projects I was working on This involved protein crystallography
I worked as a Undergraduate Industrial Placement Student at AstraZeneca 20212022 cohort My role was laboratory based within AstraZenecas Biopharmaceutical RampD organisation and Discovery Sciences function The team I was part of was responsible
I was working on a project where I was involved in developing chemical processes for scale up Most of my time was spent in the lab doing organic synthesis with some time spent doing analysis Part of my project also involved working on a crystallisation
I was allocated a lab based project to complete over the year This involved planning and carrying out my own experiments and then analysing the data and drawing any conclusions I was given opportunities to present my data to my team and able to gain e
No day really looks the same due the wide variability of tasks given The stage of the drug study depends on the type of work you will be doing each day In some instances my days have involved lots of programming for adhoc analyses At different timepoi
Making up solutions acquiring data NMR chromatography data analysis and interpretation making slides and giving presentation
I was a quality control intern where I was tasked with maintenance and upkeep of critical machinery this included cleaning and calibration I was also tasked with ensuring an adequate supply of consumables were prepared should they be needed for an ana
