Location: | Dundee |
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Salary: | £45,585 to £54,395 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 7th June 2024 |
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Closes: | 4th July 2024 |
Job Ref: | 3716 |
The DDU is a fully integrated "Biotech style" drug discovery organisation with cutting edge facilities (www.drugdiscovery.dundee.ac.uk). We are passionate about tackling unmet medical need. We have two areas of activity: drug discovery for globally important neglected and emerging infectious diseases (including TB, malaria, coronaviruses), that affect millions of people across the world every year and Innovative Targets across a variety of different diseases.
We work to BioPharma philosophy and standards, incorporating a dynamic, goal driven project management strategy based on Target Product Profiles and Compound Selection Criteria. Our team of 130 scientists, has extensive experience of all aspects of drug discovery gained within the BioPharma industry. Our exceptional skill set within a university enables us to work with major BioPharma and technology companies and world-class Life Sciences research partners, to improve how high-quality drug discovery is carried out for these diseases.
We are recruiting for a highly motivated and expert Computational Chemistry Team Leader to join our Computational Drug Discovery department. The salary will be commensurate with experience. This is a high responsibility role that offers you the opportunity to lead the computational chemistry applications team and to contribute to the DDU drug discovery effort by working collaboratively with medicinal chemists, DMPK scientists, structural biologists, biologists and biophysicists. It provides an opportunity to:
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For further information on this position please contact Professor Mike Bodkin (MBodkinOOl@dundee.ac.uk)
Commitment to DORA
The School of Life Sciences has been fully committed to the principals of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) since 2013. In assessing applicants, we consider the scientific quality of their published research papers, but do not take into account where the papers were published and do not consider journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors.
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