119109 B336 Naturejobs.com - Ecommerce http://www.icr.ac.uk http://www.icr.ac.uk http://www.icr.ac.uk The Institute of Cancer Research The Institute of Cancer Research Staff Scientist (Assay Development & Screening) The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey Section of Cancer Therapeutics (including the Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics) ________________________________________ The Institute of Cancer Research (a college of the University of London) is a world-class cancer research organisation with HEFCE RAE ratings of international excellence across all of its research programmes, including cancer drug discovery and development. In partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe, dedicated to research that extends from epidemiology, genetics and molecular biology, through drug discovery and development, to cancer diagnosis and patient treatment. Cancer Therapeutics is a multidisciplinary 'bench to bedside' centre, comprising around 160 staff dedicated to the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Our exciting goal is to discover high quality drug candidates for validated biological targets and to progress these candidates to clinical trial. All the scientific disciplines are in place to make this possible including medicinal chemistry, biology, drug metabolism and clinical specialists, all of whom focus on new molecular targets emerging from human genome and ground breaking cell biology research. Drug discovery is carried out in highly-focused multi-disciplinary project teams entirely analogous to those in a biotechnology company, with patient benefit as the primary driver. We are seeking a highly motivated scientist with experience in assay development and high-throughput screening to lead the Assay Development and Screening group, which is part of a new Hit Discovery and Structure-based Drug Design Team at the Centre. This team combines the existing high-throughput screening, assay development and project screening support capabilities with fragment based hit discovery, application of biophysical methods and structure-based drug design. The successful candidate will have significant postdoctoral experience in assay development and high-throughput screening in a drug discovery environment and have experience of successfully managing a team. It is expected that the successful candidate will have a major impact on hit generation and assay support for a wide range of drug discovery projects at the Centre and will be instrumental in facilitating the integration with other computational, biophysical and structural techniques available in-house. As an academic institute, he/she will be closely involved in the preparation of publications and grant applications in addition to patents. This is an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed scientist to make an important contribution to improved therapies for cancer patients. Starting salary will be on the Staff Scientist scale in the range of £37,477 - £53,203p.a. inclusive based on relevance of skills and experience. To apply, please send two copies of your CV and covering letter (incl. the names and addresses of two referees) together with a completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to the HR Office, The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RP quoting job Ref B336. For a job description, person specification and equal opportunities form visit www.icr.ac.uk. or call our 24 hour recruitment line on 020 7153 5475. Closing date for applications: 27th November 2009 ]]> Sutton, UK Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:28:44 -0500 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/119109-Staff-Scientist-Assay-Development-Screening