Medicinal Chemist

  • Location

    Nottinghamshire

  • Sector:

    Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    Competitive

  • Contact:

    Peter Rowland

  • Contact email:

    peter@rowlandtalent.co.uk

  • Salary high:

    0

  • Salary low:

    0

  • Job ref:

    RT139

  • Published:

    about 6 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2018-04-22

Rowland Talent Solutions are looking for an experienced Medicinal Chemist for a growing Pharmaceutical company in the East Midlands.

Reporting to the Head of Chemistry you will manage client projects of early stage drug discovery, developing novel small molecule drugs.

Duties include: 
 

  • Develop synthetic routes and perform synthesis of agreed target molecules 
  • Multi-step synthesis, reaction optimisation and scale-up (mg - gs).
  • Solve complex medicinal and synthetic chemistry problems. 
  • Design and carry out experiments using standard laboratory techniques. 


     

Ideal candidates will have a PhD in Organic Chemistry or Medicinal Chemistry, with experience in multi-step organic synthesis. You will have previous industrial/ Post Doc experience in, ideally, one the following therapeutic areas: inflammatory, obesity, cardiovascular disease, oncology and immunology.

 

This is fantastic opportunity for a Medicinal Chemist/ Senior Scientist to further their career in a rapidly growing company.   
 



Key words: Medicinal, Synthetic, Synthesis, Organic, Drug discovery, Drug development, Pharmaceutical, Chemistry, NMR, Senior Scientist