Senior R&D Scientist - Novel Biologics Delivery

Bend, OR

The actual location of this job is in Bend, Oregon (USA). Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and their families, if needed.

This is a fully site-based role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and the technical precision needed to manufacture medicines to the highest quality and safety standards.

Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across five continents. While we work in science, there's no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that's the kind of work we want to be part of.

The Senior R&D Scientist, Novel Biologics Delivery will join our Research & Development team in Bend, Oregon to lead the conceptualization, development, and experimental validation of innovative drug delivery platforms for proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids. This role bridges early-stage discovery and clinical translation.

What you will get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location.

What you will do

• Translate analytical, developability, and mechanistic insights into innovative formulation and drug delivery platforms for injectable biologics, including mAbs, ADCs, and emerging modalities.
• Apply translational science to design and assess novel drug delivery strategies.
• Apply protein stability, aggregation, and interfacial behavior principles to guide formulation design for complex biologics.
• Design, execute, and interpret advanced characterization and stability studies to guide development decisions.
• Incorporate injectability, local tissue interactions, biological fate, and translational performance into formulation design for injectable biologics.
• Develop and apply in vitro and ex vivo performance models to evaluate novel injectable formulation and delivery concepts.
• Partner with cross-functional R&D teams to integrate analytical, formulation, process, and delivery perspectives into differentiated biologic drug product strategies.

What we are looking for

• Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences, biochemistry, biophysics, chemical engineering, bioengineering, or a related discipline,
• 3-5 years of relevant industry experience
• Strong understanding of biologic developability, including protein stability, aggregation, degradation, interfacial behavior, and formulation-biologic interactions, DMPK and basic pharmacology
• Hands-on experience designing and interpreting formulation screening, stress, and stability studies for biologic drug products
• Expertise applying analytical characterization methods to connect molecular attributes with formulation performance and development decisions
• Working knowledge of injectable drug product development and sterile processing fundamentals
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional R&D teams