Senior Scientist, Drug Metabolism

June 11, 2024

Admescope

Oulu

FULL TIME

Admescope (www.admescope.com) provides research services to pharmaceutical companies and contributes to discovery and development of new therapies to promote people´s health. The special expertise of the rapidly growing company is in drug metabolism, drug-drug interactions, quantitative bioanalysis, pharmacokinetic studies, and toxicology. The company offers versatile and challenging tasks as a partner of international pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Admescope (Symeres Finland Oy), initially of Finnish origin from 2011, is part of the Dutch company Symeres, which totally employs approximately 600 people in the Netherlands, Finland, the Czech Republic, and the USA (www.symeres.com).
We are hiring a Senior Scientist, Drug Metabolism with strong experience in and understanding of ADME sciences. The role can be filled in either as a scientist, or as a study director.
In a scientist's role, you will

Be responsible for part of the studies we perform for our customers.
The tasks will include various qualitative and quantitative applications of LC/MS analytics, mainly in the field of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics.
Your tools will be very modern high performance liquid chromatographs and triple quadrupole, Q-TOF and orbitrap mass spectrometers.
We investigate both traditional small drugs and large biological drugs (proteins, antibodies, oligonucleotides).

Your role would be in our metabolism team, carrying out studies to investigate various metabolic processes of new drug candidates, e.g. metabolic stability, metabolite formation (biotransformations), and involvement of drug metabolizing enzymes in their biotransformation reactions. The position comprises mainly of development of suitable analytical methods, execution of sample analysis, guidance and support to laboratory technicians, processing of analysis data into results, and reporting.
In a study director role, you will

Be responsible for part of the studies we perform for our customers.
You provide scientific support to our business development team members, plan the scientific and experimental content of the studies together with customers.
You provide guidance and support to laboratory technicians and scientists, draw conclusions of study results, prepare reports together with our scientists, and confirm the quality of the results and reports in your responsibility area.

Qualification:

You have a university degree in a suitable field of pharmaceutical sciences or chemistry, and an extensive experience and/or doctoral degree in a field related to drug metabolism research.
You understand enzymes involved in drug metabolism, master liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS) based analytics of small molecules.
You are experienced in methods used to investigate metabolic clearance and identification of forming metabolites (biotransformations), and to identify drug metabolizing enzymes involved in metabolism of the investigated compounds.
Experience in analysis of biological drugs (oligonucleotides or antibodies) is considered as a benefit.

Our Offer

We offer an interesting, versatile, and challenging position in a strongly growing company with a great atmosphere, and many colleagues across our global organization.
You will have an opportunity to be part of the constantly evolving drug development landscape and interact directly with the customers in support of their programs.
The position is available at our site in Oulu, Finland and it is possible to work remotely part-time.

The position will be filled as soon as a suitable person is identified.
Please send your application with salary request along with your CV, highlighting the relevant education and work experience to recruitment@admescope.com, with email subject line “Senior Scientist, Drug Metabolism”.
Vacancy is open for EU residents only.
Job Type: Full-time

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