Research Scientist Cardiometabolic Therapeutic Area

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a team of experts to generate robust data supporting the preclinical validation of novel therapeutic targets or strategies.
• Independently design, execute, and interpret experiments, including troubleshooting, optimization of assays, data collection, interpretation, biostatistical analysis, and presentation.
• Perform a range of procedures in laboratory rodents, such as handling, multi-route dosing, sample collection, and necropsy, followed by ex vivo sample processing and analysis
• Participating in cross-functional drug development teams as a key intellectual and technical contributor

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree
• OR Masters degree and 2 years of biopharmaceutical industry and/or academic laboratory experience
• OR Bachelors degree and 4 years of biopharmaceutical industry and/or academic laboratory experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong expertise in the molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac, cardiovascular, or renal disease biology as demonstrated by high-impact publications in the field.
• Strong organizational skills, a high level of accuracy, commitment to record keeping, and attention to details.
• Extensive hands-on experience handling and performing routine procedures with laboratory rodents, including multiple in vivo dosing routes (IP, PO, SC, IV), diverse blood collection methods (e.g., cardiac, submental), serum/plasma processing, necropsy, perfusion techniques, IVIS imaging, or small rodent survival surgery, with a strong emphasis on animal welfare.
• Experience with 3D engineered cardiac tissue or cardiac/renal organoid models is preferred
• Hands-on expertise with cell line engineering technologies, including CRISPR and lentivirus-, retrovirus-, or piggyBac-based stable cell line generation is preferred