Amy Eckert Email & Phone Number

United States

West Point, PA

Within the Biologics and Vaccines Analytics (BVA) group in the Merck Manufacturing Division (MMD) at Merck, I support Vaccine Assay Life Cycle activities across various vaccine franchises and analytical platforms. Provide Analytical Program Development support for the commercialization of Biologics and Vaccines from Phase III through launch, transfer to.

Spring House, Pennsylvania

Contractor at Janssen working in Biologics Research, Cell Line Development And Genetic Characterization.

Philadelphia, PA

Provide technical knowledge and scientific expertise for assays within the Virology department, specializing in custom, non-routine assays. Transfer and coordinate custom protocols from development to routine operations. Conduct and direct assays and lab procedures according to and in compliance with GLP, cGMP, CFR and other pertinent guidelines. Act as.

• Efficiently implement all facets of new client projects including establishing pricing and initial statement of work, designing and performing research and development experiments, liaising with client, writing.
• Ensure optimal performance and on-time delivery of all projects while partnering with other departments, including sales, molecular biology, cell culture and manufacturing, validation, and quality assurance.
• Support virology operations by providing technical guidance to staff including investigating problems with current protocols, designing and performing qualification experiments to meet new regulatory guidelines.
• Supervise analysts for specific projects including training, scheduling, development, and regular feedback on performance. Provide scientific leadership through mentoring and coaching. Participated in staff.
• Perform various cell-based assays under GMP to detect the presence of viral contaminants in client samples, monitoring cell growth, observing cytopathic effect (CPE), counting plaque or foci formation and performing.

• Assisted in developing, optimizing and validating an HAI assay to determine influenza virus titers.
• Expanded virus lots in SPFF chicken eggs.
• Led project in absence of group leader, leading team meetings, organizing experiments, ordering supplies, and liaised with Quality Assurance, Statistics, and Data Management teams.

• Systems Biology, Biological TechnologiesProvided cell culture support of parental, transformed, and lentivirus infected cells for team members working on RNA interference (RNAi) and High Content Screening projects (HCS).
• Transferred and optimized assays for testing small local compound libraries.
• Performed primary cell isolation and culturing to develop on-site assay for hippocampal neuronal cell assay. Automated Cell Culture Group (ACCG), Chemical Screening Sciences
• Executed all facets of cell culture to provide large quantities of plated cells (200plates/day/screen, 2 screens) in 384 well format for the High-Throughput Screening group. Projects adapted to the ACCG for scale-up.
• Scheduled daily work responsibilities for 3 temporary employees, following all projects in the ACCG. Provided evening and weekend assistance to third shift employees.
• Developed assays for quality control parameters including Cell Titer Glo.

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