Principal Scientist/associate Director

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom CK GROUP Full time

CK Group are working in partnership with Avacta to recruit an Principal Scientist/Associate Director - Protein Science to be based at their state of the art facilities in West London on a permanent basis.
**About Avacta**:
Avacta is a healthcare group developing innovative cancer drugs and powerful in vitro diagnostics to improve human health and well-being. Based in White City, London, their Therapeutic division develops novel cancer therapies using its two proprietary platforms
- Affimer® biotherapeutics and pre|CISIONTM tumour targeted chemotherapy.
Innovation and collaboration is key for Avacta, and they are looking to expand the team with people who can further drive our exciting programmes forward.
**Responsibilities of the role will include to**:

- Provide support and input to develop and execute the strategy of Avacta Therapeutics, and drive development of the portfolio. Experience in oncology drug development is an advantage.
- Manage a team of scientific staff by supporting and identifying development opportunities while providing coaching and organisational leadership.
- Develop and execute strategies to deliver complex biologics including antibodies, antibody fragments and related molecules, and fusion proteins. You will also deliver and quality control a range of other proteins to support programme delivery.
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively across disciplines.
- Communicate externally and collaborate with external partners as the protein science expert within Avacta Therapeutics.
- Work will be within multi-disciplinary teams: flexibility to work on multiple programmes and different functional activities and resilience to move between these are key.

**Your Background**:

- PhD or equivalent with multiple years relevant lab-based experience.
- Demonstration of strong scientific leadership in protein engineering, production, and analysis
- Experience of line management essential.
- Knowledge of protein expression (bacterial and mammalian cells) and purification using AKTA systems is desirable, as is utilisation of automation.
- Experienced in biophysical characterisation of proteins including analysis of stability, kinetics and mass spectrometry. Experience of Biacore and/or Octet analysis strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of in vitro display platforms an advantage.

**The benefits**:

- 25 Days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, increases with length of service
- Lunch allowance for days when working on-site in White City
- Private medical
- Annual performance related bonus
- Share options
- Eye Care Scheme
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Life assurance, 2x annual salary death in service benefit
- Pension

**Apply**:
It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 55028 in all correspondence.

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