Scientist II

Job Description

Job Summary:

• We are seeking a laboratory facing Scientist to be part of a team focused on the development of Client gene therapy technologies for the treatment of ocular disease.

Duties and 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.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s Degree plus minimum 3 years relevant experience in an academic or biopharmaceutical setting OR Ph.D. with 0-2 years Post Doc experience.
• Histology experience.
• Automation experience.
• Experience in preparing high quality documents including technical reports, presentations, and experimental protocols.
• Background/experience in gene therapy preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong background in ocular disease biology including in vivo and in vitro ocular models.
• Strong background in molecular biology lab-based skills.
• 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.
• 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.
• Gene editing ASO’s and siRNA.