Institute Research Scientist

EDUCATION
Required: Bachelor's degree in Biology, Biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, enzymology, pharmacology, chemistry or related field.

EXPERIENCE
Required: Ten years of relevant research laboratory experience. With Master's degree, eight years of required experience and with PhD, two years of required experience.

Ideal Candidate will possess the following:

We are looking for an in vivo pharmacologist with experience in an industry-like environment to deliver broad in vivo support to manage a patient-derived xenograft bank and use it for preclinical mechanistic characterization and evaluation of new drug candidates and combinations. This role will require effective management of in vivo associate scientists, as well as strong scientific leadership and effective engagement and integration with multi-disciplinary teams.

· Strong working knowledge of oncology disease processes and models.

· Experience working with mouse models of cancer to deliver in vivo pharmacology data.

· Experience in using various platforms to characterize and evaluate in vivo target and pathway modulation in support of drug discovery, including molecular profiling, histology/IHC, non-invasive imaging.

· Experience dosing animals using oral gavage, IP or IV dosing.

· Demonstrated ability for creative thinking and problem solving.

· Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

· Excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills.

· Experience in managing of a team of associate scientists is required.

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