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Disease Biologist

 

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Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Contract type: Full-time Permanent contract

Reporting to: Target Validation, Disease Biology, Data Analysis, Drug Discovery

We're looking for a talented disease biologist with a background in neuroscience or inflammation and experience in target selection/validation. You'll be familiar with analysing large data sets, working as part of an extended team/with collaborators, and have industrial/drug discovery experience.

Be part of a fast-growing TechBio where you will be the centre of managing target identification and validation projects for complex chronic diseases with international biopharma and healthcare partners.

The important work you do is highly valued along with your well-being, meaning that you will have performance related bonuses and stock opportunities along with a flexible-hybrid work pattern.

You will have the opportunity to work with complex biological data and translate it into testable hypotheses through designing projects which will contribute to novel target discoveries, pushing the science you do to the front of Precision Therapy research.

You will be part of a collaborative work environment where you will be able to coordinate internal and partnered projects. This will allow you to influence those around you creating personal impact whilst learning off colleagues from varied scientific disciplines.

Through driving innovative practices your creativity will be celebrated. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary group of scientists where you will have opportunity for learning not only in the subject of genetics but in machine practices and software development, broadening your professional experiences.

By leveraging the power of computational biology and AI within a multinational company, drug discovery is being taken to the next generation where better, more personalized treatments can be created at reduced costs to improve the lives of patients with unmet medical needs. 

Your experience of over 2 years post PhD in disease biology and target validation will allow you to make a difference by advancing Precision Medicine for complex diseases.

Please note that the recruitment process will be managed by our recruitment partner, Singular Talent.

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What we offer

  • Competitive salary with performance related bonuses
  • Stock Options (subject to qualifying)
  • Company pension scheme
  • Life Assurance/Death in Service Insurance
  • Private Healthcare Scheme (subject to qualifying)
  • Flexible-Hybrid working pattern model to allow for flexibly between remote and office working
  • 25 days annual leave (pro rata) (increasing to equivalent of 28 days hols/annum on completion 3 years of service)
  • Access to substantial number of courses and training events
  • Excellent career development opportunities in a fast-growing international organisation

About PrecisionLife

PrecisionLife is a small but rapidly growing computational biology company changing the way the world predicts, prevents, and treats chronic disease.

We’re headquartered near Oxford, UK, with offices in Copenhagen, Warsaw and Boston, We were founded by a diverse team of highly experienced life science, healthcare, AI and computer science leaders and have partnerships with some of the largest international life science companies and research institutes.

Our mission is to find better, more personalized treatment options for patients with unmet medical needs - driving precision medicine beyond oncology and rare diseases, in complex common diseases that account for over 80% of healthcare spending.


Legal information

We follow the HMG’s right to work employment checks and you will therefore need to satisfy basic eligibility criteria/certain conditions of employment (e.g. nationality rules/right to work); and provide appropriate original documentation to verify ID, nationality, employment and/or academic history.

PrecisionLife is an ISO27001 and ISO27701 accredited business, fully committed to equal opportunities and operating a carbon neutral business.

Here’s a link to our privacy policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with Data Protection Act 2018/ GDPR. You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data.

You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data with supervisory authority or you can contact our DPO at GDPR@precisionlife.com for more information or concerns. We process this data for recruitment purposes only. We store all candidate data in secured file with restricted access, and we will not share it with anyone else.

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