Scientist Biomarker Discovery
Scientist Biomarker Discovery
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Job Description
At Roche you can show up as yourself embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression open dialogue and genuine connections where you are valued accepted and respected for who you are allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche where every voice matters.
The Position
A healthier future. Its what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love.
Thats what makes us Roche.
360 Labs Initiative at a Glance
The 360 Labs are a new capability that is currently being built up within the Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development organization (pRED. The primary mission of this effort is to provide greater access and support for the use of cuttingedge biomedical research technologies by scientists across our discovery portfolio.
The 360 Labs will deliver core scientific technologies expertise and enabling activities as well as facilitate knowledge sharing in close collaboration with our therapeutic areas and functions. Our ambition is to bring to life a thriving workplace environment where your collaborative mindset is as valued as your professional expertise. Our goal is to act as an highly integrated ecosystem supporting research and development working collaboratively and focused on fostering excellence and sustainability. Together these efforts will serve to increase the speed enhance the robustness and improve the sustainability of our exploratory research and early discovery activities.
The Opportunity
The Proteomics & Metabolomics Technology Platform in the 360 Labs Initiative is seeking an experienced highly motivated collaborative and customercentric labbased scientific professional with a focus on biomarker discovery and validation. The successful candidate will have a robust background in the life sciences and will lead the development and application of scalable targeted highplex and untargeted protein assays for investigative biomarker discovery efforts. You will work with a sense of urgency as a part of a matrix team collaborating and interfacing with experts from each of our therapeutic disease areas and functions to drive efforts in early biomarker identification and validation. You will also contribute to the ongoing development of biomarker discovery capabilities in the Proteomics & Metabolomics Technology Platform.
Your Role and Responsibilities
You will develop and implement scalable targeted and untargeted protein assays using both MSbased and nonMS based methods in liquid biopsies tissues and in vitro model systems to enable the discovery and validation of biomarkers of disease biology supporting the identification of new targets and elucidation of drug mechanism of action;
You will drive collaborative biomarker discovery efforts across our different therapeutic disease areas maintaining accountability for the timely implementation of assays and generation of project reports along with engaging with key stakeholders to present and discuss findings in a dynamic and flexible manner;
You will act as an ambassador and technical expert for inhouse and outsourced activities covering both experimental study design and analytical frameworks in the biomarker discovery space;
You will embrace a culture of continuous learning by actively engaging with the latest scientific literature to stay at the forefront of emergent technologies/approaches in the biomarker discovery field; present findings and updates to internal stakeholders and at scientific conferences (where appropriate) ensuring cuttingedge expertise is cultivated and maintained.
Who you are
You hold a PhD degree in Biochemistry or a related field with extensive postdoctoral research experience in biomarker discovery and validation preferably within the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry;
You are a highly skilled experimentalist with the aptitude to design and execute complex studies using targeted and untargeted MS and nonMSbased approaches (e.g. NULISA Olink) with deep experience in assay validation and the implementation of lab automation solutions;
You have exceptional competency in the processing analysis and interpretation of both MS and nonMSbased datastreams.
In addition to your scientific expertise and critical technical skills we are looking for candidates who are:
Customerfocused with a drive for growth and a questioning mindset. Skilled in creative problemsolving organization and implementing innovative ideas efficiently in a fastpaced research context;
Excellent communicators with a high fluency in English a desire to continuously build a personal network and the ability to thrive in a dynamic inclusive environment which gives you full accountability for your own contributions and development.
Your Location
This position is based in Basel
Our commitment
Roche commits to recognizing talent and aptitude. We prioritize encouraging and supporting our employees on their personal journeys by providing a safe creative space to help them reflect make decisions and grow in their career.
We are confident that we find the most innovative solutions by gaining different perspectives asking and answering hard questions and challenging the status quo. Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious yet enthusiastic way; we are devoted to building a team that represents a range of backgrounds perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are the better our work will be.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver lifechanging healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Lets build a healthier future together.
Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site which is one of Roches largest sites. Read more.
Besides extensive development and training opportunities we offer flexible working options 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as childcare facilities medical services restaurants and cafeterias as well as various employee events.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Employment Type
Full-Time
