R&D-Senior Scientist-Suzhou

Job title: Senior Scientist

• Location: Suzhou

About the job

Our Team:

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. Join our Research team as a Senior Scientist and you’ll be responsible to establishing display and protein engineering platform, initiate and lead biologics projects as a project head.

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:

• Perform protein engineering to drive therapeutic antibody lead selection, design, and optimization for antibody discovery projects.
• Design and execute phage libraries for antibody discovery and optimization.
• Perform relevant molecular and biochemical experiments and provide scientific and technical knowledge to allow high-quality characterization of recombinant antibodies and other therapeutic proteins.
• Participate at group meetings/ research conferences and present work.
• Work collaboratively across multiple internal groups, participating on project teams to achieve common goals.
• Manage all laboratory and project documentation.
• Act as project head and collaborate with other cross-functional project leads in the design and execution of the program strategies and goals.
• Maintain updated knowledge of cutting-edge computational tools in protein engineering, apply such technical approaches for analyzing related data.
• Manage outsourcing activities to CROs to ensure timely delivery of qualified data.
• Perform literature survey and critical thinking, propose new modality or druggable targets to initiate new internal projects.

About you

• Experience:

Experience with protein display technologies or previous work with therapeutic antibodies will be necessary.

• Soft skills:
  • Outstanding ability to work independently, attention to detail, time management and organisational skills, excellent communication and documentation skills is required.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative setting in industry environment, understand and follow timeline requirement, accurately and timely report to manager, coordinate with internal and global colleagues to meet milestones.

• Technical skills:

Protein display technologies or previous work with therapeutic antibodies

• Education:

Ph.D. degree in the field of immunology with 3-years of relevant industry experience

• Languages: Excellent English in reading, speaking and writing.

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.

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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