Scientist II (Scientific)

Immediate need for a talented Scientist II (Scientific). This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Waltham, MA(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-80196

Pay Range: $60 - $65/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead research projects to support the identification of therapeutic candidates from discovery into IND enabling studies.
• Execute studies to generate proof of concept data.
• Apply expertise to design, develop scientific activities/projects to identify therapeutic candidates.
• Demonstrate scientific excellence, initiate, design, and execute experiments/studies in support of goals in a time sensitive manner.
• Collaborate extensively with internal teams and be an impactful contributor and member of project teams.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:  

• Key skills; Ocular, Histology, Molecular Biology
• Master’s Degree plus minimum 3 years relevant experience in an academic or biopharmaceutical setting
• PHD Strongly preferred;
• Strong background in ocular disease biology including in vivo and in vitro ocular models.
• Strong background in molecular biology lab-based skills
• Background/experience in gene therapy preferred
• Experience in preparing high quality documents including technical reports, presentations, and experimental protocols.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, enthusiastic and fast learner who pays close attention to detail
• Ability to be flexible and pivot with changing priority of pace and projects.
• 0-2 years Post Doc experience, need to have in school or ocular disease experience is required.
• In school experience will be acceptable, as long as in occ research background
• Molecular biology lab-based skills
• Any ocular research experience is a plus
• Presentation skills
• Protein and nucleic assays
• Including in vivo and in vitro ocular models.
• Gene therapy preferred
• Histology experience
• Automation experience
• Gene editing ASO’s and siRNA

 

Our client is a leading Healthcare Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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