Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

• Provide experimental support for preclinical imaging studies (for PET and MRI) in rodents and large animals, including (but not limited to) formulation and administration of radiotracer/contrast agent/compound, image data acquisition, blood sampling, metabolite analysis, fasting, animal setup and monitoring for and during imaging.
• Serve as a liaison between imaging team and comparative medicine regarding animal health and study coordination.
• Operate state of the art imaging systems, including a Mediso LFER 150 PET/CT, a Mediso Nanoscan, a Siemens Inveon PET/CT, and two Bruker MRI systems.
• Ensure optimal functioning of imaging equipment and serve as the liaison with vendors to facilitate instrument repair and preventative maintenance.
• Perform analysis of imaging data using specialized imaging software.
• Conduct and interpret literature searches to aid in the understanding and improvement of imaging studies.
• Execute and interpret experiments to answer scientific questions.
• Understand objectives of projects and able to readily adapt and modify experimental plans as needed.
• Learn, understand, and master new experimental techniques.
• Write and implement high quality study protocols.
• Set and meet experimental timelines.
• Contribute to writing of publications, presentations, and patents.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s with 5 or more years of experience or master’s with 2 or more years of experience.
• Pharmaceutical industry experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with animal handling and setup for imaging of rodents and large animals.
• Experience with anesthesia techniques and animal health monitoring.
• Experience with ECG and EEG.
• Experience with intracranial surgery and various dosing techniques (IV, IM, SC, OP, IP, etc).
• Experience with working on a HPLC and conducting metabolite analysis.
• Experience conducting biodistribution studies.
• Demonstrated experience in molecular imaging.
• Willingness and ability to work with radioactivity.
• Able to multitask and work within given timelines.
• Demonstrated scientific writing skills and strong verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

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AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.