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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Director, Purification Development, Emerging Modalities

Cambridge, MA$192K - $259K / yearPosted 1 weeks ago
Full-timehybriddirector

Job Description

  • Lead purification development strategy for emerging modalities, with primary emphasis on antibody purification and close collaboration on purification strategies relevant to AOC programs.
  • Design and advance phase-appropriate purification processes that are scalable, robust, and suitable for early clinical development.
  • Develop purification approaches for novel and non-platform molecules, including capture and polishing strategies, UF/DF, impurity clearance, yield optimization, and process robustness.
  • Partner closely with internal conjugation stakeholders to ensure purification strategies, process interfaces, and control considerations are aligned with product attributes and overall program needs.
  • Work closely with Analytical Development to define control strategies, assess process performance, and ensure appropriate linkage between process design and product quality.
  • Provide technical leadership on purification challenges associated with complex and conjugated molecules, including removal of residual species, aggregates, unconjugated components, process-related impurities, and other modality-specific quality risks.
  • Lead downstream activities at CDMOs, including process design, study oversight, data review, troubleshooting, process transfer, and support for GMP manufacturing campaigns.
  • Collaborate with antibody development, conjugation process development, formulation, analytical, regulatory, and operations teams to support an integrated and phase-appropriate CMC strategy through Phase I.
  • Author and review downstream sections of technical reports and regulatory submission documents, including support for IND and other early clinical CMC filings.
  • Serve as the downstream technical SME in regulatory-facing discussions related to purification process design, control strategy, process characterization, comparability, and manufacturing readiness.
  • Identify technical risks, development gaps, and scalability concerns early, and provide clear recommendations to support program progression and transition into later-stage development.
  • Build and strengthen purification development practices, technical frameworks, and lessons learned to improve consistency across antibody-based and conjugate-related programs.
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    1001-5000 employees
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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