Bioanalytical Senior Scientist - Novo Nordisk

About the Department                                                                                                                                               

Our Research & Development organization brings together the best minds in life science innovation. The teams located in facilities in Lexington, Watertown, Cambridge and Seattle reflect the full R&D continuum, from early research through late-stage clinical development. Here, we are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. Our R&D hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.

The Position

In your role as Bioanalytical Senior Scientist, you will be a part of building a team focused on design, development, and execution of novel quantitative ligand binding and bio-chemical assays in support of in-vivo and in-vitro pharmacology studies. You will work with diverse modalities, including proteins, peptides, small molecules, oligonucleotides, and their conjugates. You will contribute to understanding PK/PD and biomarkers of interest that drive efficacy and toxicity. You will take part in maturing and advancing scientific ideas into projects within different therapeutic areas through experimental design and execution, ensuring data integrity and reproducibility, and communicating results to diverse project teams. In your daily work, you will provide mentorship to junior staff, collaborate closely with scientists within the Chemical Biology team, other teams across our growing US R&D Hub, and global project teams, as well as external CROs and other stakeholders. 

This position will provide impactful contributions to project teams by bringing subject and technical matter expertise. It will require excellent critical and detailed analytical evaluations of data that are most relevant to project goals and the effective communication of those evaluations. Importantly this position also will require hands on laboratory work building analytical methods and maintaining the instrumentation, reagents, etc.
 

Relationships

This position reports to head of Bioanalysis Dept.

Internal relationships include project teams and research colleagues within greater Boston R&D Hub as well as in Denmark and around the globe. Communicates data externally when required. Individual Contributor: does not manage other employees or contingent workers.

Essential Functions

Impactful contributing team member bringing subject matter and technical expertise

• Advances research projects by applying broad knowledge of early drug discovery.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for ligand binding assays and technology, i.e. qualitative and quantitative approaches, PK assays, Met ID, biomarker, ADA, ELISA, MSD, Alphalisa, etc.
• Serves as bioanalytical representative to project teams
• Designs de-novo (or sources) and performs analytical methods for ligand binding assays that are fit for purpose and produce quality, value-adding data
• Works with CROs as needed to accomplish analytical work through the establishment of contracts, communication of clear statements of work, and critical oversight of the data produced

Critical thinking and analytical skills

• Critically evaluates experimental results, analyzes data using appropriate mathematical modelling and software to create clear written and oral summaries for presentation to project teams
• Independently draws conclusions from experiments and provides input on future directions.

Effective communicator

• Effectively communicates experimental results within and outside the functional area, guides project teams and other focus groups with subject matter expertise and interpretation, presents and reports to project governance bodies and other stakeholders.
• Elucidates with project team how to best interrogate endpoints of interest in alignment with study goals
• Contributes to the dept. team’s knowledge by providing updates on relevant scientific literature and technology recommendations to guide the research agenda

Laboratory oversight

• Maintains and troubleshoots relevant lab instruments; provides hands-on instructions and training for new and less experienced team members.
• Contributes to effective management of consumables, reagents, sample inventories, and other shared resources.
   

Qualifications

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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