Post-doctoral Research Associate - Collegeville, United States - GSK

GSK

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Collegeville, United States

4 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

Site Name:
USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date:
Apr

Accelerate your post-doctoral research with GSK's extensive R&D engine in a world-class facility.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Be part of cuttingedge science to advance GSK's mission to 'unite science, talent and technology to get ahead of disease together'; all with the clear ambition of delivering human health impact.
Bridge the gap from target identification to medicine for patients inneed by leveraging GSK's: Tools, Technologies, Libraries, Samples, People, Knowledge Base, and Training program.

Your Post-doctoral experience will be accompanied by tremendous support at GSK with the opportunity for daily collaborations with world-class scientists.

GSK is committed to providing each Post-doc with a mentor who will be focused on providing a comprehensive training program and is expected to nurture skills that will enable the Post-doc to become an independent scientific investigator.

Post-doc Experiences and Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities

Stay up to date with necessary training and maintain compliance with company policies and procedures.
Responsible for leading studies, coordinating sample analysis, data generation, data management and communication to project teams.
Collaborate with key opinion leaders, within GSK and externally, regarding highly technical information.
Operate imaging equipment to acquire invivo and/or exvivo images of tissues and injection sites.
Understand, interpret, and communicate complex scientific data.
Exhibit productivity in a fastpaced multidisciplinary scientific environment.

Why you?:

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

D. degree in Material Science, Physics, Biomedical Engineering, or relevant fields, completed within the past 3 years.

Experience in one or more of the following characterization techniques, e.g., Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Xray Microscopy-Computed Tomography (XRM-CT), Electron Microscopy (Scanning, Transmission, Cryo, Focused Ion Beam).
Experience with handling experimental animals and tissue processing (fixation/freezing).
Experience with characterization techniques of pharmaceutical suspensions and surface interactions.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

Learning agility to develop expertise on multiple imaging techniques including MRI, immunofluorescence and confocal imaging.
Knowledge in immunology, virology with focus on HIV.
Be a selfstarter and have ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
Have a track record of publishing in scientific journals.
Drive effective collaboration with good organizational and communication skills.

LI-GSK

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive.

We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines.

We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people.

While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.

We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be.

A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles.

This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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