Tissue Culture Specialist Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Sosei Heptares is an international biopharmaceutical company with a mission to make a significant contribution to improving the quality of life and health of people around the world. To achieve this, we will discover, design, and develop the most innovative and effective medicines for patients worldwide, through our world-leading patent-protected technology and platform.
Our core focus is on the discovery and early development of new medicines originating from our proprietary G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR) targeted StaR® technology and Structure Based Drug Design (SBDD) platform capabilities. Today, we are advancing a broad and deep pipeline of novel medicines across multiple therapeutic areas, including neurology, immunology, gastroenterology, and inflammation diseases.
We have established partnerships with some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and multiple emerging technology companies, including AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Biohaven, Genentech (Roche), GSK, Neurocrine Biosciences, Novartis, Pfizer, Takeda and Verily.
Sosei Heptares is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with corporate and R&D facilities in London and Cambridge, UK. We have approximately 170 employees based at our state-of-the-art R&D research centre at Granta Park, Cambridge. The size of our company ensures optimum agility and transparent linkage between all activities from early discovery through to clinical development.
For more information, please visit https://soseiheptares.com/. LinkedIn: @soseiheptaresco | Twitter: @soseiheptaresco | YouTube: @soseiheptaresco
Position:
We are now seeking an enthusiastic scientist to join our cell culture and protein expression facility. The candidate will be part of the wider Biochemistry group which supports our drug discovery platform and is expected to maintain, both mammalian and insect cell lines, and to expand suspension cell cultures to enable large scale expressions. The candidate must therefore have experience working in tissue culture facilities. Experience in molecular biology and biochemistry would be advantageous.
The ideal candidate will possess the following:
- Expertise in sterile cell culture techniques
- Expertise in handling adherent and suspension mammalian and insect cell cultures
- Expertise in Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) and in raising baculoviruses
- Experience with transient transfection methods and baculovirus mediated protein expression protocols
- Comprehensive and accurate record keeping and reporting skills
- Organisational skills such as maintaining and ordering lab consumables
- Knowledge of expression quality control (QC) experiments using methods such as Western Blot, fluorescence size exclusion chromatography, FACS and ligand binding assays would be advantageous
- Molecular biology skills such as cloning, and DNA purification would be advantageous
Requirements:
- Educated to Master’s degree level (grade 2.1 or equivalent) or above and/or with significant professional experience in biological sciences
- Previous laboratory experience in an industry environment is desirable
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of cell culture
- Organised and enthusiastic and comfortable working autonomously and in a team environment
- Competent user of MS Office applications
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Other information:
What’s in it for you?
State-of-the-art R&D centre located in the heart of the Cambridge science cluster
- Competitive compensation package including discretionary cash bonuses
- Eligible for grants of Restricted Stock Units in Sosei Group Corporation
- 25 days annual leave in addition to public holidays
- Employer contribution to pension
- Private Medical Insurance and a cash plan for dental and optical reimbursement
- Health and wellbeing benefits including a subsidised individual gym membership
- Income protection to cover long term absences due to ill health
- Group Death in Service equal to 4x basic annual salary
Why Sosei Heptares?
At Sosei Heptares, we are dedicated to the pursuit of scientific innovation. Our mission is to make a significant contribution to improving the quality of life and health of people around the world. To achieve this, we will discover, design, and develop the most innovative and effective medicines for patients worldwide, through our world-leading patent-protected technology and platform
Working at Sosei Heptares
The Sosei Heptares R&D centre is a modern, state-of-the-art centre located within easy shuttle reach of Cambridge and Whittlesford Parkway train stations. We offer a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment that considers your individual needs and believes in maintaining a sustainable work-life balance. You will be welcomed by a team of colleagues with decades of accumulated experience in their areas of expertise, happy to help you develop your own skills in a highly collaborative environment and who are keen to provide guidance and support in your personal and career development plans.
Our Vision and Values
To become one of Japan’s science and technology-led biopharmaceutical drug discovery champions. To achieve this, we will leverage our global know-how and operating agility to deliver a sustainable pipeline of first or best-in-class therapeutics, ensuring our place amongst the next generation of leading innovators.
We are guided by three fundamental values.
Limitless Compassion
- Unswerving passion
- Continuous self-innovation
These unchanging set of core values that serves as a guide across all our activities
Join Us!
Other information
The successful candidate will be employed by Heptares Therapeutics Ltd, a UK wholly owned subsidiary of Sosei Group Corporation.
Sosei Heptares is committed to building a diverse and ambitious workforce, and to promoting equal opportunities in employment. We recognize that diverse and inclusive teams build a stronger and more innovative company. Therefore, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment: we do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other classification prescribed by law.
Applications should include a CV and covering letter, providing a short description of the background of your interest in the role, and apply via our on-line jobs’ portal: https://bit.ly/3v7NJh0 in pdf format, quoting reference number 2023-Biochemistry-TCS. The closing date for applications is 15 June 2023.
