James Wagner
Senior Director at Merck
- Role
- Senior Director at Merck
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Wagner
Chemical engineer by training and currently a vaccine development scientist in practice - I enjoy the unique challenges of working at the interface of research + development and engineering + biology
Experience
Senior Director
Sep 2025 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US
Senior Director of early stage process and platform development (Drug Substance, including expression system / cell line development, upstream fermentation / cell culture, and downstream / purification) for multiple modalities (recombinant proteins, live virus / viral vectors, conjugates, etc.)
Education
Penn State University
Bachelor of Science - BS
Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Skills
- Transient Transfection
- Protein Expression
- Quality by Design
- Gmp
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Electronic Lab Notebooks
- Recombinant Expression Systems
- Process Development
- Process Economics
- Vaccines
- Technology Transfer
- Molecular Biology
- Design of Experiments
- Biochemical Engineering
- Bioreactors
- Chemical Engineering
- Cell Lines
- Baculovirus
- Cell Culture
- Sharepoint
- Fermentation
- Biotechnology
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