Title:  Histopathologist

Job description

Job title: Associate Scientist

Job location: Bangalore

Job grade: 8-I

About Syngene:  Syngene (www.syngeneintl.com) is an innovation-led contract research, development and manufacturing organization offering integrated scientific services from early discovery to commercial supply.

At Syngene, Safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures, and sops, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, safety and Sustainability (EHSS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams, and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, safety and Sustainability (EHSS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity, health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’s quality standards at all times
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

Core Purpose of the Role:

The candidate is responsible for supervising the assigned team and their activities. He will be ensuring supply of quality slides, timely archival of study related specimen and raw data, addressing the audit response, SOP preparation and review.  Also, performing necropsy of laboratory animals, tissue sectioning (microtomy) and documentation of raw data as per Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and regulatory requirements as and when required. In addition, the candidate will be involved in laboratory animal anaesthesia, euthanasia, husbandry practices and preparation for the necropsy activities.

Role Accountabilities:

• Supervising the assigned activities and assigned team members in pathology laboratory.
• Delivering quality slides, in a timely manner to pathologists in line with the committed timelines
• Addressing the audit responses in a timely manner
• Ensuring the timely archival of study specimen and raw data
• Preparation and revision of standard operating procedures.
• Involving in qualification of the vendors, suppliers and instruments.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Euthanasia and necropsy of study animals, collection, weighing, verification, and preservation of organs.
• Preparation of various reagents, fixatives, solutions, and stains used in histopathology laboratory.
• Trimming, processing, embedding, sectioning of tissues and staining, mounting and labeling of slides.
• Maintaining the chemical stock register.
• Involving in archival of pathology specimens such as tissue bottles, paraffin blocks, histopathology slides and bone marrow slides.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation as per regulatory requirements.
• Laboratory animal husbandry practices, health monitoring procedures and documentation.
• Maintenance of consumables for the daily laboratory activities

Syngene Values

All employees will consistently demonstrate alignment with our core values

•  Excellence
•  Integrity
•  Professionalism

Specific requirements for this role

Experience

• 4-7 years

Skills and Capabilities:

• Experience in supervising pathology activities

• Experience in conduct of necropsy of laboratory animals and histology/clinical pathology activities

• Good in verbal and written communication skills.

Education

• M.Sc. Zoology