Lead Scientist - Microscopy and Imaging

Description

Lead Scientist – Microscopy and Imaging

Location – Cheshire

Sector – Drug Discovery

Salary – Up to c£60,000 depending on experience

Contact – Full Time and Permanent opportunity

Our client is a leading company, offering research services to the Drug Discovery sector. They collaborate with lead researchers and organisations to enhance the understanding of immunological, oncological, neurological and other disease areas. They are offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join their Cellular Sciences Team as a Lead Scientist within advanced microscopy. If you have built an extensive career and are a microscopy and imaging expert looking to work on exciting pre-clinical  and ex vivo drug discovery projects and want to further your career, then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

The Role

This is a role for highly experienced Scientists in Advanced Light Microscopy who hold a PhD (or Master’s) in a biologically focused discipline and an extensive track record in post-doctoral or industrial positions. This will be a 50:50 split between hands-on laboratory work and office based duties. As a Lead Scientist – Microscopy and Imaging, you will be responsible for:

• Direct line management of a small team of microscopy scientists.
• Leading, proposing and directing advanced microscopy projects relating to drug discovery and disease research.
• Using various light microscopy techniques including super resolution microscopy, high content imaging, confocal imaging, multi-photon imaging, live cell imaging e.g. Incucyte etc.
• Working on complex cellular models, tissues, fixed cells and live cell imaging projects.
• Designing and implementing new image analysis pipelines
• Establishing strong collaborations and supporting business development as a technical expert to showcase what value imaging projects can have on drug discovery.
• Liaising with external collaborators to provide project milestone updates and drive further research initiatives.
• Keeping on top of the latest super resolution and other light microscopy technological changes and suggesting new tools to be used internally.

Skills and Experience Needed:

Suitable applicants will have:

• A PhD or Master’s – a significant portion of this PhD/MSc should be advanced light microscopy based. (essential)
• Proven track record of delivering high-impact microscopy projects on-time and within budget (essential)
• Many years’ of post PhD experience in running and using various types of advanced light microscopy including one or more of the following: Super Resolution (PTM, SIM, STED, STORM, PALM etc), live cell imaging, high content imaging (HCI) (essential)
• Proven experience in line management (essential)
• An understanding of and experience in the disease research or drug discovery sector (essential)
• A strong network in the microscopy field and collaboration experience with other experts in the field (essential)
• Ex vivo tissue and cell preparation and analysis experience (essential)
• Excellent communication, multi-tasking skills (essential)
• Previous experience of working in small-medium sized companies would be a significant advantage. (desired)

The Package

Being a leading collaborative drug discovery company, our client is offering the chance to be part of a growing organisation on a permanent basis, with a competitive salary and benefits package.