Careers
Pegasus Biotech Inc. is an agile biotech company focused in providing high quality vaccine (DNA, autogenous, rProtein and VLPs) and biologic development services to the human and animal health sectors as well as developing accurate and reliable analytical testing methods for the human and animal health industry. Our areas of expertise include cell culture/fermentation, purification and formulation process development, analytical assay development, veterinary biologic product development and regulatory submission (EMA, CFIA, FDA, USDA), point-of-care and clinical diagnostic instrument and assay development, GLP/GMP lab quality standards and HSE.
Open Positions
Salary: Base salary based on experience + performance pay
Job Description:
The BD Associate/Manager will be responsible for establishing new relationships with clients for Pegasus Biotech, primary tasks include:
- Cold calling/emailing potential clients.
- Having initial calls with potential clients to introduce Pegasus Biotech’s technology and services.
- Maintaining and further developing CRM systems.
- Developing print and digital marketing materials
- Drafting project proposals/agreements
- Other duties as required
Qualifications:
- Relevant university degree.
- Previous experience in the human and/or animal health sector.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Pegasus Biotech’s services and technology
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Previous experience in business development is required.
- Additional education in finance or business would be considered an asset.
- Multilingual would be considered an asset
Those interested in applying can submit their resume to Dan Wilson at info@pegasusbio.com
Closed Positions
Salary: $40-$65K depending on experience and qualifications
Job Description:
The associate scientist will be responsible for the supporting the development of new vaccines and biotherapeutics. Tasks will include:
- Under the guidance of a principal scientist, develop new analytical methods for vaccines and biotherapeutics, including:
- HPLC assays, ELISA, cell-based bioassays, QPCR assays and others.
- Maintaining accurate records of experiments
- Analyzing data.
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations
- Preparing SOP’s, validation protocols and reports
- Preparing/presenting project updates as required.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- Relevant college diploma, B. Sc and/or M.Sc. with 0-5 years experience.
- Experience with ELISA development would be considered an asset.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for vaccine/biotherapeutic development would be considered an asset
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Experience working in vaccine development would be considered an asset.
Salary: $45k-$80k depending on qualifications and experience.
Job Description:
Pegasus Biotech is looking for highly driven and innovative individual to contribute to the development of cutting-edge vaccine technology. The individual will also support client research projects as required, duties include:
- Contributing significant knowledge of molecular biology to the development of new vaccine technologies.
- Designing and cloning novel DNA plasmids.
- Plasmid sequence optimization to maximize yield and transfection.
- Analytical and process development for both traditional and nucleic acid vaccines.
- Project management.
- Analyzing data to improve process performance and consistency.
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations.
- Operating in a BSL-2 facility.
- Preparing scientific documents such as SOPs, validation protocols and reports.
- Preparing/presenting project updates to clients.
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications:
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in a related area or B. Sc. with 5+ years experience.
- Demonstrated experience innovating unique solutions to complex problems.
- Hands on experience with molecular cloning. Experience with RNA purification and qRT-PCR assays would be considered an asset.
- Experience in upstream processing including bacterial fermentation, cell culture or seed banking for vaccines/biotherapeutics at lab and pilot scale would be considered an asset.
- Experience in downstream processing including liquid chromatography, tangential flow filtration and product formulation for vaccines/biotherapeutics at lab and pilot scales would be considered an asset.
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Salary: $85k-$125K depending on qualifications
Job Description:
Pegasus Biotech is looking for a seasoned veteran of the biotechnology industry for the position of Director of Development. They will be primarily responsible for day-to-day management of client projects, including:
- Process Development for vaccines and biotherapeutics including upstream and downstream activities
- Analytical development for vaccine and biotherapeutics
- Managing a team of scientists with a particular focus on bringing industry/regulatory expertise to the project team.
- Project management
- Analyzing data to improve process performance and consistency.
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations
- Preparing SOP’s, validation protocols, reports along with other documents as required.
- Preparing/presenting project updates to clients
- Cultivate, mentor, and empower emerging leaders within the company
- Other duties as required
Qualifications:
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in a related area with 10+ years experience.
- Experience in upstream processing including bacterial fermentation, cell culture, seed banking for vaccines/biotherapeutics at small and pilot scales.
- Experience in downstream processing including liquid chromatography, tangential flow filtration and product formulation for vaccines/biotherapeutics at small and pilot scales.
- Experience with analytical development, including a working knowledge of USDA, ICH, and VICH validation requirements.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for vaccine/biotherapeutic development including experience interacting with regulators would be considered an asset.
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Experience supervising high performance teams, nurturing creativity, and accountability.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Project management experience
- Prior experience developing a product through to a successful regulatory approval is required.
- Experience working in vaccine development is required.
- As this position involves interacting with clients, excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
Salary: Competitive compensation based upon qualifications and experience.
Job Description:
The senior scientist will be responsible for developing and validating new analytical methods for the testing of vaccines and biotherapeutics. Tasks will include:
- Developing analytical methods for vaccines and biotherapeutics.
- Performing assay validation as per ICH/VICH guidelines
- Maintaining accurate records of experiments
- Interpreting assay data to troubleshoot or improve assay performance
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations
- Preparing SOP’s, validation protocols and reports
- Preparing/presenting project updates to clients
- Other duties as required
Qualifications:
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in a related area or B.Sc. with 5+ years experience.
- Experience developing ELISA’s, QPCR, and HPLC methods for biomolecules.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for vaccine/biotherapeutic analytical methods.
- Experience with cell culture/bioassays.
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Project management experience preferred.
- Experience working in vaccine development would be considered an asset.
- Experience interacting with customers would be preferred.
Salary: Competitive compensation based upon qualifications and experience.
Job Description:
The senior scientist will be responsible for the development of new vaccines and biotherapeutics. Tasks will include:
- Process Development for vaccines and biotherapeutics including upstream and downstream activities
- Maintaining accurate records of experiments
- Analyzing process data to improve process performance and consistency.
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations
- Preparing SOP’s, validation protocols and reports
- Preparing/presenting project updates to clients
- Other duties as required
Qualifications:
- M.Sc./Ph.D. in a related area or B. Sc. with 5+ years experience.
- Experience in upstream processing including bacterial fermentation, cell culture, seed banking for vaccines/biotherapeutics at small and pilot scales.
- Experience in downstream processing including liquid chromatography, tangential flow filtration and product formulation for vaccines/biotherapeutics at small and pilot scales.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for vaccine/biotherapeutic development.
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Project management experience preferred.
- Experience working in vaccine development would be considered an asset.
- Experience interacting with customers would be preferred.
Salary: Competitive compensation based upon qualifications and experience.
Job Description:
The senior scientist will be responsible for developing new vaccine development platforms for existing and new Pegasus clients. Tasks will include:
- Research, development and implementation of innovative vaccine technologies.
- Project management
- Maintaining accurate records of experiments
- Assistance with grant/patent applications
- Data analysis
- Operating in a GLP facility following GxP regulations
- Other duties as required
Qualifications:
- MSc/PhD in immunology, virology, molecular biology or related field. MSc with 5 years of lab experience, or PhD with two years of experience.
- Lab experience in molecular cloning and fermentation required.
- Experience working with minimal supervision.
- Detail-oriented and good organizational skills.
- Project management experience preferred.
- Experience working in vaccine development would be considered an asset.
- Cell culture and/or biotech industry experience would be considered an asset.
- Experience interacting with customers is an asset.