Site Name: UK - Cambridgeshire - Addenbrookes
Posted Date: Nov 5 2024
GSK’s success absolutely depends on our people. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged, and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, agile, and experienced scientific director with subject matter level and prior lab expertise in spatial and single cell technologies to join the Biomarker and Bioanalytical Platform (BBP) department in Precision Medicine (PMed) based at Clinical Unit Cambridge (CUC) in Cambridge UK. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to build and lead a group of talented scientists to support translational research teams through generation of foundational data sets as well as disease biomarkers development and validation in respiratory, immunology, or emerging specialities.
Key Responsibilities
* Spatial and Single Cell Omics Expert: Serve as a technical expert in applied spatial-omics and single cell-omics to support translational and clinical studies, the delivery of robust, high-quality data packages.
* Histotechnology: Oversee routine histology workflows of clinical trial samples, including biopsy processing, embedding, microtomy, histochemical staining, and imaging.
* Project Oversight and Lab Compliance: Oversee all aspects of the teams’ projects. Act as a subject-matter expert to advise translational and clinical teams on assay strategy and design.
* Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams including Translational Research, Translational Sciences, Clinical Biomarkers, Precision Medicine, HBSM, and Pathology.
* External Partnerships: Develop trusted connections in the scientific community (internally and externally to GSK).
Basic Qualifications
* MS or PhD with extensive years of post-graduate experience in a relevant scientific discipline.
* Experience in managing projects and leading a team.
* Strong knowledge on Human Tissue Act and experience in histotechnology.
* Strong knowledge and experience in working with spatial-omic platforms.
* Broad experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting single cell RNA-Seq applications.
* Team player with a proactive attitude.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to maintain a disciplined approach, with a strong attention to detail.
* Willingness to develop and train others as required.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience supervising the execution of experimental protocols in a GCP-compliant laboratory setting.
* A good understanding of the drug development process.
* Experienced in workflows to analyze high-plex biological data sets.
* Experience generating high quality data to support clinical studies.
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