To further accelerate our research and development, we are eagerly looking for talented, passionate, and challenging Senior Medicinal Chemists who can make a paradigm shift with us.
Responsibilities
Essential functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lead collaboration R&D as a project leader
- Design and synthesis of requisite, novel compounds
- Expansion & further development of PRISM PepMetics platform
- Active and innovative engagement to our new internal project for drug discovery, including proposing, leading, managing a project
Requirements and qualifications
Basic qualification
- Expertise in organic chemistry
- Ph.D. in drug-discovery or related research area
- Excellent experience on journal publication and conference presentation
- Successful track record to lead novel drug discovery projects for first-in-class therapeutics, from hit-finding and lead optimization to pre-clinical stage, as a project leader or a key player in a global pharmaceutical
- Knowledge and experiences of data analyses on pharmacology, safety, pharmacokinetics etc. in drug discovery projects
- Business-level English skills: communication, presentation, discussion, and writing to have a scientific discussion with global pharmaceuticals
- Decent IT skill for progression of research and management, including Microsoft Office
Desirable qualification
- English skill to deliver a business/science negotiation
- Working experiences in the multiple pharmaceuticals, ideally including experiences in biotechs
- Experiences in patent specification preparation
- Management and operation of CROs overseas
- Talented IT skills for applicable for data management and research progress, including high-level application skills of Excel
- PostDoc experiences at an institute different from the one where the doctoral research was conducted
- Japanese skill to communicate with PRISM members
Basic requirement
- Curiosity and passion for exploiting new drug R&D approach
- Goal-oriented mind, not data-oriented
- Decision making even with a limited set of essential information
- Bring a creative approach to problem solving
- Strong sense for urgency, be a team player
- Excellent communication
- Willingness to bear uncertainty
- Positive, energetic, and outgoing attitude
- Self-motivated, finding new ways to perform his/her job better
Job type
Regular, full-time
Discretionary Labor System for professional services. Deemed to have worked 8 hours.
Location
iPark Shonan
Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Schedule
Monday to Friday
Benefits and compensation
- Stock option
- Insurances in Japan (medical, pension, unemployment insurance, workers insurance)
- Paid time off & sick leave
- Paid (Japanese) holidays
- Commuting allowance
etc.
Apply For This Job
Please attach your career resume with a password and send it to the following recruitment email address. Please send the password by another email.
hr@prismbiolab.com