Job Description
Description:
We are working alongside a leading Pre-Clinical CRO specialising in Neuroscience to a hire a Scientist / Senior Scientist for their site in Sandwich, Kent.
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
Who we are:
We are a dynamic recruitment agency that has evolved since our first establishment in 2012. We work with several high-profile clients globally to help them source and retain top-tier talent.
The Client:
We are in collaboration with a global pre clinical CRO specialising in Neuroscience research.
The roles are based in Sandwich, Kent. Reporting to the Site Director, as part of their expansion they are searching for 2 scientists, either at the Scientist level or Senior Scientist for their Pain / Epilepsy research teams.
This lab-based role (on-site) will be to develop and execute relevant disease in vivo models to generate robust pharmacological and disease-relevant biological data for preclinical research studies for biotech or pharma companies. These positions will be working in their Pain or Epilepsy teams.
Working hours: 7am – 3pm, 8am – 4pm or 9am – 5pm (dependent on candidate’s & lab work needs).
Requirements:
- degree with significant relevant lab-based experience, preferably in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry or a similar PhD in Biology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, or a related discipline.
- licence 1-4, including rodent dosing, behavioural testing, surgical techniques, tissue dissections
- expertise in rodent pain and/or epilepsy models with a variety of pain end points (Von Frey, thermal, weight-bearing etc) or epilepsy models.
- in the design, development and validation of preclinical studies for compound efficacy profiling and screening; including analysing data and report writing