Sosei Heptares is an international biopharmaceutical group focused on the design and development of new medicines originating from its proprietary G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) targeted StaR® technology and Structure-Based Drug Design (SBDD) platform capabilities. The company is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of partnered and in-house drug candidates in multiple therapeutic areas including neurology, immunology, immuno-oncology, gastroenterology and rare/specialty diseases. Sosei Heptares is a world-leader in engineering of functional, stabilized GPCRs in their natural pharmacological conformations (agonist or antagonist), enabling the determination of 3D structures of GPCR-ligand complexes useful for SBDD.
Sosei Heptares has approximately 145 employees based in the new R&D research facility at Granta Park, Cambridge. The size of the company ensures a transparent linkage between all activities from early discovery through to clinical development.
We are growing our established Medicinal Chemistry team and are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated scientist with strong synthetic organic chemistry skills to contribute to Sosei Heptares’s drug discovery programmes. This one-year fixed term position will be based at our Granta Park facility and is an exciting opportunity to participate in cutting edge drug discovery.
For the right candidate, the role provides an excellent opportunity to work within an industry-leading drug discovery company and to impact drug discovery projects in our unique environment of structurally enabled GPCR drug discovery
We are seeking candidates whose profile will include:
Applicants must be able to demonstrate proof of the right to work in the United Kingdom.
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Sosei Heptares is an equal opportunities employer.
Applications should include a covering letter, providing a short description of the background to their interest in the role, with curriculum vitae including the names and contact details for two referees.
Please send your application in pdf format, quoting reference number 2019/3Chem. The closing date for applications is 31st March 2019.
Strictly no agencies.