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

  1. Senior Director

    Merck

    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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