Research Scientist - Muscle Metabolism - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Research Scientist – Muscle Metabolism

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division. In Research & Development, our ambition is providing innovative high-quality products, creating sustainable value, delivering superior user experience, and enhancing health outcomes at all stages of life. 

The Research Scientist will provide scientific expertise to drive innovations for key nutritional brands and development of scientific research projects at Abbott Nutrition towards development of new products or improving existing products.

What You’ll Work On

Primary Functions:

• Developing an innovation pipeline for key Abbott nutritional product to target muscle loss and metabolic dysfunction resulting from chronic disease (e.g. cancer, diabetes, etc.), aging (sarcopenia), hospitalization, and malnutrition.  This will include:
  • Proposing scientific concepts to help develop brand innovation, based on new and evolving mechanisms of action and research gaps, in the areas of mobility and metabolism across the lifespan.
  • Independently conducting literature searches to identify novel ingredients and appropriate preclinical models to screen for ingredient efficacy. 
  • Designing and implementing preclinical studies (animal and cell culture) to evaluate nutritional ingredients to fill the innovation pipeline for the brands. 
  • Translating preclinical findings by designing and conducting early-stage human clinical studies.
  • Developing intellectual property for Abbott by filing patent applications and understand the patent landscape.

• Endure Abbott science through scientific publications (original articles, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, reviews etc.) in peer-reviewed journals, and communicate research findings to scientific and non-scientific audiences.
• Identify best-in-class external institutional partners to collaborate with on research projects that will help building the science to support innovations and products.
• Cross-functionally collaborate with internal stakeholders (e.g. nutrition science, product development, regulatory affairs and commercial) to understand and leverage their expertise towards progressing the innovation pipeline toward commercialization.
• Understand the competitive landscape and identify ways to differentiate Abbott products on market.

Required Qualifications

• PhD with broad expertis