Your newpany
A leading global biopharmaceuticalpany is seeking a Research or Senior Scientist who is highly motivated and innovative to join their Target Validation and Tractability team. Join a diverse team dedicated to discovering, validating, and understanding the mechanisms of new drug targets for diseases with significant unmet patient needs. This role is lab-based and requires strong laboratory skills, especially in cell biology and assay techniques.#
Your new role
1. Investigate immunological disease pathways and biology to uncover new therapeutic opportunities in areas with unmet needs.
2. Establish and manage collaborations with leading researchers focused on autoimmune-related biological pathways and disease models to identify new disease-drug target connections.
3. Conduct drug tractability and validation experiments, including Gain of Function/Loss of Function assays, cell culture, flow cytometry, imaging, and other techniques.
4. Enhance the department’s technological and scientific expertise by advancing target-to-disease translational insights, implementing novel technologies, improving workflows, and fostering robust scientific discussions.
5. Present data and insights both within the organisation and externally.
6. Produce detailed experimental write-ups and assist inpiling procedures, guidelines, and reports.
7. Work collaboratively across the organisation in a matrix structure to integrate new targets into the research portfolio.
What you'll need to succeed
8. (or equivalent) with over 2 years of industry experience, or a PhD/post-doc.
9. Background in immunology or related fields.
10. Proficiency in bioinformatic tools for visualising and analysing large datasets.
11. Basic coding skills.
12. Experience in various cellular and molecular biology techniques, such as Cell Culture, Flow Cytometry, High content imaging, Immunohistochemistry (IHC), ELISA or MSD, Western blotting, qPCR, Transfection/siRNA/CRISPR gene-editing
13. Experience in generating and analysing ‘-omic’ datasets is essential.
14. Basic coding skills are a plus.
What you'll get in return
15. Excellent opportunity to join a leading biopharmaceuticalpany and make meaningful contributions