Postdoctoral Scientist in Vitro Diagnostics

1 month ago

Macclesfield, United Kingdom taylorollinson Ltd Full time

**Postdoctoral Scientist - _in vitro _diagnostics**

**Location** - Cheshire

**Sector** - Drug Discovery

**Contract -**Fixed Term Contract until Summer 2024

**Salary -**Depending on experience, competitive with postdoctoral salaries

Our client is a leading company, offering research services to the Drug Discovery sector. They collaborate with lead researchers and organisations to enhance the understanding of immunological, oncological, neurological and other disease areas. Based onAlderley Park, they are offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual to join their Discovery Sciences Team as a Postdoctoral Scientist for an exciting new project based around cancer biomarker diagnostics. If you are a PhDholder and have experience within molecular biology and oncology or cancer diagnostics and want to further your career, then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

**The Role**

This is a role for individuals who have recently obtained a PhD in a diagnostic or molecular biology and oncology focused project. It is also open to those who have some postdoctoral experience within molecular diagnostic assay development. As a PostdoctoralScientist, you will be responsible for:

- Support an external partner with the development of novel diagnostic technology, used to detect cancer through ctDNA biomarkers.
- Use a range of technologies including digital droplet PCR, hybridisation quantification and some immunoassay technologies.
- Developing new diagnostics and liquid biopsy assays, from scratch.
- Deliver high quality data within tight timeframes.
- Communicating with internal and external project partners to discuss results and future project direction. Part of this will involve giving presentations.

**Skills and Experience Needed**:
Suitable applicants will have:

- A PhD - Focused around ctDNA, liquid biopsies or cancer molecular biology (essential)
- Proven molecular assay development experience i.e. ddPCR, hybridisation, DNA technology (essential) - ideally within a diagnostic and liquid biopsy type setting (desired)
- A strong ability to problem-solve and take the lead on projects when needed. (essential)
- A proven background in using DNA and immunoassay technologies e.g. ELISA (essential)
- Experience and comfort in analysing and interpreting experimental data (essential)
- 1-2 years as a post-doc in University. (desired)
- Biophysical characterisation experience e.g. SPR (desired)
- Experience in working in multi-organisation projects (desired)

**The Package**

Being a leading collaborative drug discovery company, our client is offering the chance to be part of a growing organisation on a full-time and temporary, with a competitive salary and benefits package.

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