Research Associate

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Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

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Research Associate, Oncology Drug Discovery

Working with Us, Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. We are passionate about making an impact on the lives of patients through research. This open position offers the opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community striving to find new disease targets and develop innovative therapies.

We seek a highly motivated, passionate, and collaborative scientist with demonstrated experience in oncology discovery biology to join BMS in Cambridge, MA. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of tumor intrinsic cancer biology, cancer dependencies or synthetic lethality. Experiences in working with small molecule agents or degraders is preferrable.

Job Summary

This laboratory-based position requires a highly motivated, passionate, and creative individual that demonstrate the ability to work across a highly complexed environment to advance preclinical programs from target identification/validation through IND enabling stages. The ideal candidate will have experience in laboratory-based research in the areas of tumor intrinsic biology, cancer cell signaling and mechanisms of response to targeted therapies. This position will offer the candidate the opportunity to work broadly across different therapeutic target classes and drug modalities while developing strong collaborations with colleagues from our supportive line functions (including medicinal chemistry, biochemical screening, in vivo pharmacology and translational research. The successful candidate will demonstrate clear and professional verbal and written communication, capable of presenting scientific results to multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders.  BMS is committed to people development and we foster a learning environment to build scientific and leadership skills. In addition to working on scientific projects, and based on the individual’s interest and capabilities, candidate will have ample opportunities to propose, participate in and lead company initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute cellular assays to support drug discovery campaigns, mechanism of action and target validation studies.
• Coordinate planning and acquisition of study materials, assay validation, troubleshoot assays and independently conduct rigorous data analysis and interpretation.
• Execute a wide variety of cellular and molecular techniques to validate and characterize genetic or small molecule perturbations of targets and downstream pathways, such as CRISPR/RNAi tool design/generation, Western blot, qPCR, ELISA, immunoprecipitations, luminescence assays, and phenotypic assays.
• Collaborate with colleagues in chemistry, biochemistry, and structural biology to