Title: Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry
Location: South San Francisco
Salary: Competitive based on experience
Must Have's:
-Ph.D in chemistry or related
-3-5 years of Medicinal Chemistry Experience (Protein-Protein interactions, SAR Relationships, PK, Novel Chemistry)
-Previous Management Experience (direct reports and CROs)
-Experience working with cross-functional groups (i.e. biologists, analytical chemists, PK)
Responsibility:
-Designing chemical analogs and scouting routes to access analogs
-Manage lead optimization of a series of allosteric small molecule ligands
-Direct a small team of medicinal chemists in the synthesis of analogues
~70% performing desk work including: chemical design at computer, chemical docking (w/computational biologists), and working with CROs (weekly reports and troubleshooting)
~30% in the lab working with: analytical chemists, PK biologists, and other cross functional teams
-working daily with the Associate director of R&D on the assays to characterize compounds, look at data, and interpret structure to advance compounds
-contribute to early discovery programs in the company pipeline
-coordinate additional work in-house and outsourced for solubility and PK
-Interface with IP team to write patents
Sthree US is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
