Job description
Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Apr 16 2025
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Associate Scientist, Medicinal/Organic Chemistry
We are seeking Associate Scientists in synthetic chemistry to join our medicinal chemistry teams.
These roles are for laboratory-based chemists carrying out experimental work within GSK’s Discovery Chemistry and Modality Platform Technologies sections. For successful candidates, this involves designing and executing synthetic plans to deliver small quantities of compound for biological evaluation. In addition to the laboratory component of this role, this will also involve analysing data and designing compounds to test medicinal chemistry hypotheses.
This is an opportunity to apply your personal expertise in organic synthesis and new chemical technologies to accelerate drug discovery from hit identification to early development (non-GxP). These positions require individuals with strong synthetic, technical, analytical and personal skills, and a commitment to further personal development as a scientist.
In this role you will:
* Maintain a consistent high laboratory presence and make laboratory-based contributions.
* Maintain high synthetic productivity.
* Be required to develop and realise medicinal/synthetic chemistry plans across a variety of drug modalities including small molecules, antibody drug conjugates, PROTACs and oligonucleotides, with high scientific rigour.
* Design, implement, analyse and problem solve, as appropriate.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* MChem or MSci in Chemistry or related chemical sciences, or a BSc with relevant experience outside of academia.
* Demonstrated understanding of synthetic organic chemistry and its efficient execution in the laboratory, including purification and analysis.
* Ability to plan and execute experiments.
* Excellent IT skills.
* Highly proficient in verbal and written English and must have outstanding communication skills.
* Committed to personal professional development.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
* Experience and/or knowledge of the use of novel technologies (e.g. photochemistry, electrochemistry, flow chemistry, high-throughput techniques) in modern organic synthesis.
* An awareness and understanding of medicinal chemistry principles and their use within a drug discovery setting.
* Experience working in modalities, particularly oligonucleotides, ADCs and/or PROTACs.
Closing Date for Applications – 6th May 2025
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Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
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