Summer Worker – Fast Trak / Process Development

Be part of something altogether life-changing

Working at Cytiva in the Life Sciences industry means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. With associates across 40 countries, Cytiva is a place where every day is a learning opportunity – so you can grow your career and expand your skills in the long term.

Cytiva is proud to work alongside a community of nine fellow Danaher Life Sciences companies. Together, we’re pioneering the future of science and medicine, developing products that enable researchers in the fight to save lives.

We’re excited to share that we’re now accepting applications for a number of summer job opportunities at our site in Uppsala during the summer of 2025. The summer job positions are spread across various parts of our organization, ranging from manufacturing and R&D, to logistics, quality control and general administration.

We’re looking for a summer worker at Cytiva in Uppsala to join our Fast Trak / Process Development team to assist in exploratory experiments with the aim to investigate the effect of sanitizing agents on chromatography resins. At Fast Trak, we perform process development projects for customers, primarily in the pharma business. Fast Trak also delivers trainings in bioprocessing techniques. As a summer worker with us, you’ll get the opportunity to understand and apply various techniques for chromatography and more specifically troubleshoot and investigate one specific phenomenon related to resin sanitization procedures. You will get the opportunity to assess resin performance/behavior in a real drug purification application.

What you’ll do

• Work in a collaborative industrial project environment involving chromatography subject matter experts (SMEs) from both Cytiva Fast Trak and Cytiva R&D
• Experimentally expose various resins to sanitization solutions & assess the effect of such solutions on the resin
• Perform chromatography experiments with both pure protein and real “feed” from a biological production process as samples
• Perform analytical assays to assess resin performance
• Summarize and report results together with the project supervisor

Who you are

• Ongoing studies within biotechnology, protein science, molecular biology or similar.
• Knowledge about chromatography and protein chemistry is a plus.
• Experience working with the ÄKTA chromatography system and/or UNICORN is a plus.
• Experience with qPCR and HPLC is a plus
• You communicate fluently in English and Swedish.

As a summer worker at Cytiva, it is required that you are at least 18 years of age and have a valid work permit. Interview and selection will happen continuously, and the position may be filled before the last day of application 31/3. For any questions you might have regarding this summer internship position, please contact hiring manager Jesper Hedberg at jesper.hedberg@cytiva.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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