Senior Scientist – Viral Vaccine Standards

The MHRA is transforming. Through enabling innovation, making the right judgements of the benefits and risks of medical products and forging the right partnerships in the UK and internationally, it aims to deliver world class regulation and improved outcomes for UK patients.

We are currently looking for a Senior Scientist – Viral Vaccine Standards to join our Standards Lifecycle function within the Science, Research & Innovation group.

Within a week of working here, your day could look like this: managing projects to develop and characterise biological reference materials that support standardisation of assays used to evaluate viral vaccines/antigens or the response to immunisation, coordinating and managing large multi-laboratory studies, analysing and interpreting complex data sets.

Our successful candidate will have a BSc degree in a relevant scientific discipline combined with relevant post-graduate laboratory experience; experience with performance and standardisation of assays used to evaluate or quantify vaccines/antigens, viruses or the response to immunization; good understanding of the principles of biological standardisation and its application to a range of assay models, and experience analysing and interpreting complex data sets.

Closing date: 10 August 2025

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