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1) Senior laboratory automation leader/manager; 2) Junior Laboratory Research Assistant; 3) Statistical Geneticist/Epidemiologist

(US-New Jersey) High-Throughput Assay of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Center for Pharmacogenomics and Complex Disease Research University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Newark Campus. Our mission is to capitalize on the recent discovery of millions of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome to advance understanding of complex disease susceptibility and individual differences in therapeutic response. Positions Available: 1) Senior laboratory automation leader/manager: Assume responsibility for all aspects of managing and running the laboratory in high-throughput and high accuracy performance mode. Experience of 5+ years running high-throughput assays using automated and robotic systems (not necessarily SNPs or genomics); hands on optimizing and trouble-shooting complex chemical assays; work well in a team environment; highly accurate and productive work track record is essential; experience working with LIMS desirable; outstanding oral and written communications skills highly desirable. Education: PhD or MS degree or BS with 5+ years of advanced experience. Specific academic area not essential (as long as you have the experience described above). May include biochemistry, biology, chemistry, engineering or other disciplines including Computer Science (though this is not primarily an IT or bioinformatics). 2) Junior Laboratory Research Assistant: Reports to the Senior Laboratory Manager. Performs a wide range of assays, sample preparation, equipment operation and maintenance with high accuracy and reliability; BS degree with laboratory and automation experience desirable. 3) Statistical Geneticist/Epidemiologist: Contribute a leading role in statistical analysis, data mining and interpretation of SNP associations with complex disease susceptibility and individual differences in therapeutic response. Postdoctoral fellowship or Staff Scientist (MS or PhD) levels of experience will be considered. Experience in human genetics or animal studies of QTLs desirable but not required.

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Sr. Regulatory Affairs

(US-Missouri-St. Louis) Pharmaceutical company in the St. Louis area is looking for a Senior Regulatory Affairs Associate to represent their Regulatory Affairs Department. Responsibilities: Must be able to implement strategies based on current regulations to take a project from early development through marketing approval to product retirement. Will be in regular contact with regulatory authorities, industry associations and other internal departments. Must be able to respond to questions and issues regarding specific applications, departmental SOP's and any regulatory strategies. Will execute the assembly and approval of drug applications to regulatory authorities and advise staff members on regulatory requirements and effective ways of meeting them. Requirements: B.S. in chemistry, pharmacy, or other life science required. Minimum of 6 years experience working in a regulatory controlled environment with at least 4 years in regulatory affairs. Strong experience with successful FDA submissions and assembling of NDAs/ANDAs. European Marketing Authorization experience preferred. Relocation assistance available. This is a full time, permanent placement opportunity.

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Up Stream - Scientist

(US-Massachusetts) SciGenium is looking for an Up Stream - Scientist in the Boston Area. Responsibilities: Process scale-up of a Mammalian cell facility for a recombinant Protein - blood product. Emphasis is on upstream process development work i.e. BioReactors- perfusion, aspiration. Previous experience growing the cells cleanly and efficiently up to 500 liters as well as downstream purification. Work in a Scale-up manufacturing environment operating under cGMP as well as experience from process transfer to Manufacturing. Utilize your knowledge of purification development principles for polysaccharides as well as ability to perform routine in-process and release assays. Work with Bioreactor to created biologics, purified proteins and ability to assist in cell / tissue culture as well as associated knowledge/technology transfer issues. Will perform protein characterization via spectroscopy (FT-IR, CD, fluorescence, or Raman). Requirements: Phd and 5+ years commercial exp in accordance with cGMP and FDA guidelines Good working knowledge of SOPs, GLPs, and SSPs.

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Bioinformatics Applications Scientist/Specialist

(US-Maryland-Montgomery County) Responsible for responding to advanced scientific and data management questions (escalated from Tier I) from users and developers requesting assistance with specific proprietary applications/tools. Duties and Responsibilities ·Provides advanced phone and e-mail support to users, software developers, and system administrators for custom applications developed for /by clients ·Troubleshoots and responds to advanced scientific and data management questions related to core applications as well as advanced system configuration and administration questions. ·Assists bioinformatics developers in expanding/enhancing research studies and conducting independent research and development experiments using proprietary applications and tools. ·Creates sample code, examples, and documentation as required for individual users/developers and general training use. Required Technical Expertise: ·Master’s degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field.

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Director Product Process Development

(US-Michigan-Ann Arbor) This individual will lead the Product Process Development group and drive the implementation of world class processes for the development and production of the company’s biopharmaceutical and small molecule product candidates. Responsibilities include working with the management team to develop strategies for prioritizing and implementing best product process development plans and practices for the various product areas. The Director will also be responsible for developing a strategic plan and tactical methodology for scaling up production of product candidates to support clinical trials, and eventual commercialization and distribution to market. This person will be expected to help lead the negotiations with potential partners, suppliers, and technology vendors as necessary to scale up production. Then ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years experience in working with external CMO’s for product process development. Candidate will also have demonstrated expertise in developing processes to support complex production methods and proficiency working with both large and small molecule production.

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Physician: Infectious Diseases

(US-Connecticut) Pharmaceutical company position with great salary and benefits. Board Certified in Infectious Diseases. Experience with HIV clinical studies Phase IIIB and IV.

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Senior Principal Scientist

(US-Minnesota-Minneapolis) Local medical technology company is seeking a Senior Principal Scientist to manage their research studies aimed at the development of cardiac pacing leads. This includes experimental design, animal and human experimental protocol development, fulfilling appropriate legal requirements, data analysis, documentation and publication of results. This position will work with customers, consultants, researchers, marketing, and product planning. In addition, the position is responsible for ensuring new concepts or features are successfully transferred to new products. Must have a Masters degree in Physiology or Biomedical Engineering, PhD. is preferred.

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Senior Research Scientist

(Singapore) Our client, a pharmaceutical company, focusing on the discovery and development of new drug candidates from natural sources, is currently seeking suitable candidates to fill the position of: Senior Research Scientist The candidate is required to perform drug design and synthesis, lead optimization, and QSAR studies. Minimumum Requirements - PhD in Synthetic Organic or Medical Chemistry, with a strong record of achievement as evidenced by publications. - Demonstrated expertise in structure-based drug design, quantitative structure-activity relationship studies and ADME properties prediction - Possess good communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

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Pharmacogeneticist

(US-Massachusetts) Design pharmacogenetics studies to address questions related to drug metabolism, treatment efficacy or toxicity arising in the course of clinical trials. The design will be done in close collaboration with the clinical trial teams and may use a candidate gene or a whole genome scan approach. Conduct association studies to investigate the correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and clinical parameters. Statistical tools used may include multivariate analysis, survival analysis, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Linkage Disequilibrium, Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium and haplotype analysis. The goal is to find genetic factors associated with drug response. The analysis will be conducted in close collaboration with the clinical trial statisticians. Implement new statistical methods to address genome-wide association studies addressing the multi-genetic nature of complex traits Requirements: MD or Ph.D. in Human Genetics Strong knowledge of Statistical Genetics and Molecular Genetics.

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Principal Research Associate

(US-Massachusetts) Job Description: Would you like to be part of a Biotherapeutic Protein Development Group? If so – Read on! RESPONSIBILITIES Work with a team of scientists to assist in assay development, optimization, troubleshooting, and assay validation efforts. Provide assay support for release of pre-clinical and early phase clinical therapeutic proteins. Train QC analysts to facilitate assay transfer to Operations. Work independently with minimal supervision. Analyze and interpret data and report findings. EXPERIENCE Candidate should have a minimum of a BS degree in biology and possess 10 plus years of industry experience. Excellent communication skills and the ability to be flexible in a dynamic team environment are required. Cell culture and cell-based assay development experience is essential and QC experience and/or familiarity with GLP/GMP regulations is a plus.

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Clinical Application Specialist II - B

(US-Illinois) For more than a century, our client has been working to advance health care for people around the world. They have evolved into a diversified health care company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets innovative products and services that span the continuum of care from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure. They provide total integrated solutions across the health care spectrum for some of the worlds most prevalent medical conditions, including AIDS, cancer and diabetes. Our client, a major pharmaceutical company in Lake County, IL is looking for a Clinical Application Specialist II - B with the following qualifications: REQUIRES 3-5 YEARS EXPERIENCE Generate tables, listings, and graphs for compound projects. Responsible for the validation and quality assurance of any output produced. Generate and review validated table, listings, and graph output meeting the needs of Clinical Projects. Prefer candidate with SAS program and clinical experience. BS Preferred.

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Clinical Medical Services Specialist - B

(US-Illinois) Our client, a major pharmaceutical company in Lake County, IL is looking for a Clinical Medical Services Specialist - B with the following qualifications: REQUIRES 3-5 YEARS EXPERIENCE Provides medical support with emphasis on the intake of medical product experiences and processing standard communication requests. Acts as a liaison with Quality Assurance for product quality problems where an adverse event is involved. Works with Customer Service to provide standard information and product replacement as necessary. Provides assistance to the medical and lay community with standard information that is from the package insert or information from the standard letter database that deals with labeled and specific off-label information/indications. BS Preferred. BSN Highly Desired.

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Biotech Business Development

(UK) An outstanding opportunity lies ahead for a proven business developer within the Biotechnology industry. Opportunities within this company have never been wider and more exciting as they continue to prosper in a climate of uncertainty. This is a company at the cutting edge of Biotechnology analytics, and the company is looking to continue to develop a reputation for providing unparalleled technology. They are now seeking a Business Development professional to strengthen their existing team. The successful candidate will work in the “Top Gun” team; this team leads major sales engagements and shapes our overall proposition for new customer acquisition. They will be responsible for managing the commercial modeling to support major sales opportunities and leading all negotiations to progress and close the deal. Critical to success in these roles, will be the continued development of our client and to ensure senior level engagement on current business issues and to support our partnership development and major deal capability.

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Marketing Specialist

(US-Maryland) This individual is responsible for the development of technical and product support documents related to marketing and sales of product line. Significant travel and direct contact with accounts and market segments is required. Responsibilities include other related duties that may be assigned from time to time. Additional Functions include; ·To conduct training courses on new products for technical support prior to release and market positioning training sales personnel. ·To develop demonstration strategies and presentation of products to potential and current customers to support the sales effort. ·To obtain competitive information for assigned products and analyze for report to sales. ·To create documentation for sales support materials including feature/benefit analysis and positioning strategies for each product assigned. ·To evaluate and recommend market needs and then propose to develop and implement hardware and software solutions to meet these needs.

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LCMS/GCMS Sales Specialist

(US-Massachusetts-Boston) This individual in this position is responsible for sales of GC and LC Mass Spectrometer in the assigned regions. This position is a pre sale position with responsibilities to assist the Regional Sales Representatives in MS opportunities and to find and to assist in closing orders. Other responsibilities will be technical support for the defined regions/reps, demonstrations, sales calls, assisting in installations, training, as well as, other related duties that may be assigned from time to time. Functions include: ·Establish and maintain a good relationship with all accounts; ·Timely submission of all required reports such as Call Reports, Expense Accounts, Forecasts, Lost Order Reports, Bid Opening Results, Competitive Marketing Information; ·Submission of Territorial Marketing Plans; ·Performing adequate sales calls, demonstrations and other calls as necessary; ·Mentoring the regional sales personnel to identify and assist in closing mass spec sales.

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