Medicinal Chemistry Lead

  • Location

    East Midlands

  • 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:

    RT371

  • Published:

    about 4 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2020-03-29

We currently have an opportunity for a Medicinal Chemistry Leader to work for a growing pharmaceutical research organisation.

 

The role:

As a Senior/ Principal Medicinal Chemist, you will be laboratory based leading drug discovery projects. As a technical leader you will solve complex synthetic organic chemistry problems and support junior Organic Chemists in the lab.

 

Responsibilities include:

 

  • As a medicinal chemistry lead you will act as a subject matter expert on drug discovery projects.
  • Design creative and novel medicinal chemistry solutions.
  • Analyse large data sets and identify exploitable SAR.
  • Perform complex synthesis and purification on a range of novel drug molecules to support hit identification, hit to lead and lead optimisation campaigns.
  • Lead drug discovery projects supporting and coaching junior Organic Chemists.

 

Experience and Qualifications required:

 

Ideal candidates will be PhD qualified in Organic Chemistry and have experience in leading synthetic organic drug discovery projects. As a Medicinal Chemistry Lead you will have extensive experience in solving complex and challenging synthetic problems.

 

 

This is growing company with some fantastic facilities. The company offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package.

 

To apply please send your CV to Peter at Rowland Talent Solutions.

 

 

 

 

 

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