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 PhD in molecular or cellular biology, neuroscience, or related discipline with 0-2 years Post Doc experience.
• Experience in preparing high quality documents including technical reports, presentations, and experimental protocols.
• 1yr industry experienced (biotech or pharma, can be through co-op, internship, or collaboration).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong background in molecular biology lab-based skills.
• Background/experience in gene therapy preferred.
• 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.
• Basic familiarity with preclinical therapeutic pipelines.
• Ability to work to timeline and contribute to ongoing projects and activities.

Preferred/ Nice to have skills: 

• Ocular disease experience, not required (seen as a plus).
• Histology experience (seen as a plus).
• High throughput and automation (seen as a plus).
• Gene therapy (seen as a plus).