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Postdoctoral Fellow – Target Validation : Vancouver, BC, Canada
Employer: The Centre for Drug Research and Development
Website: http://www.cdrd.ca
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type: Postdoctoral
Posted: October 07, 2011
Expires: October 31, 2011

job description

Postdoctoral Fellow – Target Validation

Job Description
The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) provides drug development expertise and infrastructure to enable researchers from leading academic and health research institutions to advance promising, early-stage drug candidates. CDRD combines its drug development platform with a commercial arm, which licenses technologies from affiliated institutions and establishes working collaborations with other biotech and life sciences companies. The Government of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence program has recognized CDRD as a Centre of Excellence in Commercialization in Research (CECR).

Job Summary
As a Post Doctoral Fellow in CDRD’s Target Validation Division, you will be a member of a research team providing critical expertise for progression of drugs from discovery through commercialization.

Responsibilities
•Working within and across the CDRD divisions, you will participate on drug research and development project teams requiring expertise from target validation, drug screening, organic synthesis, drug formulation and delivery, through in-vivo drug evaluation.

•Under the direction of the Division Head, you will assist CDRD Investigators from affiliated institutions with completing proof of concept packages for selected drug research projects.

•Duties may include working with investigators and other team members in developing biological assays, automating processes, performing statistical analysis, performing SNP analysis and analysis of gene and protein arrays.

•Other related duties as assigned

Qualifications and Experience
•Recent completion or completion within the next 3 months, of a PhD in biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, or a related discipline.

•Direct experience developing either cell-based biological assays or biochemical assays with knowledge of genomic and proteomic based assays.

•Experience with RNA techniques including gene microarrays, SNP genotyping and RT-PCR an asset.

•Preferred candidates will be flexible, with a determination to further their skills in multiple areas.

•Willingness to contribute to and work in a team environment is required.

•A good publication record, with experience related to drug research

•Excellent oral and written communication skills

How to Apply
Please forward your application, in PDF format, to careers@cdrd.ca with the subject line of “PDF – Target Validation”. Please ensure your submission is in PDF format in one document indicating your surname in the filename. For example: smithjohn-cover-resume.pdf.

We thank all interested applicants for their interest, however, only those applicants short-listed will be contacted for an interview.

Location: UBC
Application Closing Date: Until Filled

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