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Career Programs

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Post Doc – Drug Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

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Career Program

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Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

_About Innovative Medicine _

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

About Immunology

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Our Immunology team leads in the development of transformational medicines for immunological disorders and illnesses. You can influence where medicine is going by restoring health to millions of people living with immune diseases. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

We are seeking an outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar, Immunology (Translational Sciences, Immunomics) to be in Spring House, PA or Cambridge, MA, under the mentorship of Dr. Matthew J. Loza, PhD, Director, Johnson & Johnson.

Translational Sciences and Medicine (TSM) is an integrated group of scientists composed of a clinical Translational Medicine (TM) team which conducts early clinical development and experimental medicine studies, and a Translational Sciences (TS) team which uses human based data and tissues to support the end to end portfolio. TS has a broad remit stretching from support of discovery with human data to support target selection, through development of novel decision- making biomarkers for early phase clinical trials, target centric indication sequencing and prioritization, and biomarker support of regulatory filings. The group has expertise in biomarker development, disease biology research and in the application of immunology and data science technologies to support drug discovery and development.

The candidate should be passionate about applying their computational biology skills to respiratory research, particularly for asthma and COPD. The candidate would be part of the Immunomics group, which provides computational biology needs for the Immunology Translational Sciences disease area teams. Activities include partnering with the Translational Sciences Respiratory team as well as Discovery and clinical study teams to mine preclinical, clinical, and molecular data to characterize molecular pathways of interests, patient endotypes and develop and validate patient stratification hypotheses and biomarker-based endpoint strategies translated into clinical assays. Furthermore, the candidate will partner with cross-functional teams to engage in interactions with external experts and academic institutions to advance the respiratory immunology portfolio.

You will be responsible to:

• Identify relevant ‘omic datasets from literature searches, internal resources, and collaboration networks for internalization and processing
• Plan and perform data analyses of biomarker and clinical datasets related to asthma and COPD, including but not limited to RNAseq, single-cell RNAseq, and proteomic data.
• Independently interpret scientific literature to design, perform, and analyze data to define new experiments and studies for the progression of projects.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team across and within academia and industry.
• Publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals and present results at scientific meetings.

Required Education:

• Ph. D. in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, a related field, or relevant experience with computational biology with a Ph.D. in Immunology or related field. Ph.D. to have been completed within the past 3 years, or to be completed within the next 6 months

Required Experience and Skills:

• 4+ years of proven experience
• Strong background in computational biology and ‘omic data analysis, with fluency in R-programming.
• Highly motivated and capable of driving projects forward independently with minimal daily oversight.
• Strong planning and experiment coordination skills with the ability to multitask in a fast paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills working with diverse colleagues,

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Familiarity with immunology and/or respiratory diseases is preferred.

Other:

• This position is preferably based in Spring House, PA, with consideration for basing in Cambridge, MA for outstanding candidates, and currently has the option to follow a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week working on site and 2 days per week working remotely. (No fully remote option available)

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $77,000 to $124,200

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

– Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year

– Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year

– Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year

– Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Additional information can be found through the link below. For additional general information on company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Push the boundaries of science to transform health—and your career.

Join us and advance life-changing treatments for people who need them most. At Johnson & Johnson, our focus is on improving global health equity and developing MedTech and pharmaceutical innovations that impact the future of health. Using AI and robotics to transform surgery or helping data scientists and clinicians formulate new ways to diagnose and treat disease, this work may sound like sci-fi, but it’s all science, all real, and could be your career. Whatever your background, skills, or career goals, there’s a place for you to help solve some of the world’s most pressing health challenges with us.

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