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Job Description

About the role:

At Takeda, we are a forward-looking, world-class R&D organization that unlocks innovation and delivers transformative therapies to patients. By focusing R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas and other targeted investments, we push the boundaries of what is possible in order to bring life-changing therapies to patients worldwide.

Join Takeda as a Senior Scientist, IBD/GI, Inflammation Research where you will work independently as a Senior Scientific contributor or as a project lead in early-stage, matrixed teams to identify and characterize new targets in autoimmune disease research. You will also develop and oversee novel scientific projects and will manage the work of others directly or in a matrixed structure.

How you will contribute:

• You will provide deep scientific expertise in immunology, IBD and autoimmune disease acting as a subject matter expert, contributing to assessments of potential collaborations with external partners.

• You will support early clinical candidate selection and to design in vitro and in vivo studies and to execute or manage the execution of in vitro preclinical pharmacology studies that support clinical development.

• Collaborate with others and acts as scientific resource for programs.

• Independently develop solutions and strategies within own expertise while using breadth of knowledge of other disciplines.

• Participate in early clinical candidate selection and asset characterization in support of clinical trials.

• Ensure the appropriate conduct of studies, lead the interpretation of study results, and prepare study reports suitable for internal or regulatory use.

• Scientifically assesses and recommend vendors, and outsources nonclinical studies to appropriate contract research organizations.

• Prepare detailed protocols / SOPs that enable transfer of validated assays to project team members and collaborators.

• Demonstrate broad knowledge of immunology, autoimmune disease and the principles and experimental techniques needed for identifying targets and validating therapeutic candidates.

Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:

• PhD degree in a scientific discipline with 3+ years experience or

• MS with 9+ years experience, or

• BS with 11+ years experience

• Adept at isolation and running in vitro assays with primary human immune cells.

• Experienced with multi-color flow cytometry of human and mouse immune cell subsets

• Familiar with operation of multi-plexed protein detection systems (e.g. Luminex)

• Familiar with standard molecular biology techniques

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

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