A postdoctoral opportunity is available in the Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, the state-of-the art drug discovery Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute.  The Postdoctoral Associate will be responsible for conducting chemical biology research through development and use of biochemical and biophysical assays of novel biological targets from diverse classes and therapeutic areas.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently designs and performs experiments and procedures with high degree of complexity, demonstrating increasing expertise with a wide range of techniques.
• Demonstrates flexibility in adapting methods/skills according to evolving project priorities.
• Provides independent experimental design and follow up planning, interpretation of results and evaluation of data.
• Able to analyze and interpret data from different sources and draw relevant conclusions.
• Demonstrates knowledge in specialized disciplines.
• Presents results within lab, and at external meetings.
• Accurately documents experiments in lab notebook.
• Contributes to writing of reports and manuscripts, with increasing responsibility over time.
• Works collaboratively across functions. Trains junior members of team as needed.

• The ability to work independently, and simultaneously handle multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interactive team, excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills.

• A Ph.D. degree or equivalent in scientific discipline such as biology, chemistry, or pharmacology, is required.
• A minimum of five years experience conducting discovery research or related laboratory research. Advanced knowledge of biochemistry, enzymology, enzyme kinetics and thermodynamics, protein chemistry or other areas of math-intensive quantitative biology is highly desired.

Qualified motivated individuals should submit their CV, in addition to the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three references to Dr. Eduard Sergienko, Director, Assay Development, esergien@sbpdiscovery.org. Please cc: jcolomb@sbpdiscovery.org.

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