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Job Title: Senior Scientist

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. 

We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative Senior Scientist with experience in rare muscle and/or neuromuscular disorders with expertise in mechanisms impacting disease progression, including inflammation, fibrosis, atrophy and regeneration. The successful candidate will bring a broad range of in vitro, in vivo and/or in silico skills to support current pipeline programs and lead the exploration of novel pathways and targets for initiation of new programs. We are a team that encourages creativity and proactiveness to unlock new therapeutic avenues. This is an exciting opportunity to make an early and meaningful impact on therapies for patients with devastating neuromuscular diseases.

The successful candidate will play a key role in identifying novel therapeutic opportunities and expanding our pipeline into new indications. They will contribute across research, clinical, and business development efforts, helping to align scientific insights with strategic goals. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of therapeutics for rare muscle and/or neuromuscular disorders and help deliver transformative treatments to patients worldwide.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Apply scientific expertise and judgement to design, execute, analyze and document in vitro and in vivo studies to support pipeline and exploratory programs.

• Explore disease biology to identify and validate new targets and pathways for preclinical programs.

• Design and conduct mechanism-of-action and proof-of-concept studies to evaluate therapeutic strategies.

• Implement cutting-edge methodologies and leverage internal technology platforms to strengthen data packages.

• Lead and coordinate outsourced research activities with CROs.

• Initiate and support on-going collaborations with academic partners.

• Maintain high-quality data documentation.

• Prepare and present data in internal meetings and at external conferences.

• Contribute to the preparation of publications, patents, and technical reports.

About You

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

• Ph.D. in a scientific field with relevant experience in industry or academia; or a master’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience; or bachelor’s degree with 6+ years relevant experience.

• A degree in Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, or a related discipline is preferred.

• Strong knowledge of skeletal muscle and/or neuromuscular biology.

• Experience studying mechanisms of muscle pathology in neuromuscular diseases (e.g., inflammation, fibrosis, atrophy, regeneration).

• Hands-on expertise in molecular, cellular, and biochemical methods, assay development, and in vitro and in vivo disease models.

• Experience preparing high-quality documents including experimental protocols, SOPs, technical reports, and presentations.

• Track record of significant contributions to research projects and scientific publications.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with cell-based models for muscle biology (primary/immortalized myoblasts, satellite cells).

• Expertise with animal models of muscle disease (dystrophic models, muscle injury model).

• Experience performing muscle functional measurements in rodents.

• Hands-on experience performing single nuclei isolation from skeletal muscle for single-nuc RNASeq.

• Computational biology experience in RNA-Seq and/or single nucleus/cell RNA-Seq data analysis.

Core Competencies

• Ability to work independently as well as part of cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment.

• Ability to multi-task and adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.

• Excellent critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in a multidisciplinary team.

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build excellent working relationships.

• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, lab notebook practices, and attention to detail.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

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