We are looking for a Scientist to join our client's pharmaceutical development team in South San Francisco. The right candidate will have an MS or PhD and a strong background in Metabolic/Obesity Disease. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative, growing pharmaceutical research and development team!

Onsite: South San Francisco

Long-term contract: 1 year plus extension. potential contract to perm

This Scientist position will oversee the lab and the work of the associates. He/she will be looked at to ensure programs are moving ahead smoothly. Metabolic experience is required.

Currently this work focuses on liver and obesity. You will focus on building assays to support these studies.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• MS or PhD plus 3-7 years of pharma/biotech industry experience
• Mammalian Cells NOT bacterial
• Complex Primary Cell Culture
• Metabolic background (Adiposity/Obesity/Kidney/insulin/liver)
• Obesity biology
• Microscopy (Columbus/Opera phenix)
• Cell Staining, IPSC, Western Blots, ELISAS, HTRFs, Absorbance Readouts, qPCR
• Diverse technical skills
• GLP experience in small to mid-size biotech or pharma company

Nice To Have:

• Led or significantly contributed to drug discovery program
• Program progressed to clinic

Responsibilities:

• Role will be 80% lab 20% office
• Building assays to support studies
• Documentation will be out of the lab
• Bench notes according to good laboratory practices (GLP)
• Overseeing the lab and the work of the associates

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