Senior Scientist in Translational Pharmacology

Does it excite you to work with translational pharmacology? and do you have experience within obesity pharmacology? If this sounds like you, and you are ready to take on a broad area of responsibilities, then you could be our new colleague. ​  

Your new position  
As a scientist within Translational Pharmacology, you will support both our research projects and development projects with high quality and efficient in-house and CRO in vivo/ex vivo pharmacology studies.  In that connection you will conduct MoA studies to generate the scientific story for our drug targets and explore how our drug candidates differentiate compared to marketed drugs.  

We offer exciting responsibilities:  
 

• Act as Study Director for both in-house and CRO studies. This includes designing, conduction, interpretation, and reporting of in vivo/ex vivo pharmacology studies.  

• Develop needed pharmacology models to ensure our project progress. 

• Support the projects with in-depth disease and biology understanding.  

• Identify new potential drug targets and suggest new early research projects.  

Your profile  

You have a genuine interest in obesity, with a particular focus on obesity-related neuroscience, biomarker discovery, and translational research. As a person, you are an excellent communicator, demonstrated through the ability to build and maintain productive relationships across functions and levels. Additionally, you are good at taking ownership and proactively managing your tasks and projects. 

 
Key competencies: 

• Preferable minimum 2 years postdoc experience 

• FELASA certificate 

• Experience in developing and running animal models within obesity. Experience within obesity related neuroscience including models within this research area is a significant advantage 

• Proficient in statistical analysis  

• Experience in interpretation, reporting and publication of study results 

If you have experience with some of the below, it is only an advantage:  

• Experience with muscle, adipose and/or liver tissue biology including models evaluating this 

• Experience with indirect calorimetry and feeding systems