Scientist - Protein

Scientist - Protein Science

Up to 2-years FTC

Cambridge

SRG are delighted to be supporting an organisation that prides themselves of solving problems within drug discovery. Using their structure- and fragment-based approaches their enable drug discovery on both established and novel targets. They are now looking to hire into the protein science team on a fixed term basis up to 2 years.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generating high quality proteins to support drug discovery programmes by enabling NMR, X-ray crystallography and biochemical assays.
• Production and QC of high-quality proteins suitable to enable drug discovery programmes
• Presentation of work at project meetings and to external partners
• Liaising with Protein Science Team Leader and Project Leaders to ensure the needs of projects are met

Person Specification:

Essential:

• BSc (or equivalent) with industry experience
• Experience with working with bacterial expression systems
• Hands-on experience with protein purification
• Experience using AKTA purification systems e.g. AKTA Pure
• Competent using IMAC/IEC/SEC techniques
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable:

• Familiarity with intact mass spectrometry analysis of proteins
• Knowledge of using TSA/DSF for protein QC
• Experience generating isotopically labelled proteins
• Experience assessing structures of protein software such as PyMol

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.