Associate Scientist

Lausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandFull time

Description

For our Translational Medicine Department and within our Translational Laboratory, we are looking for a:

Associate Scientist

In this role, your role will be to evaluate and set up new high value-added procedures and protocols in the areas of cell culture, immunology and molecular biology in order to actively support translational pre-clinical and clinical studies in support of all Translational Medicine services. You will also ensure the development of new IT tools for raw data management and analysis.

Your main responsibilities:

• Ensure the development of high value-added procedures and implement new technologies in connection with the Bioresearch Translational Laboratory strategy;


• Support the Bioresearch manager by leading Innovation projects and ensuring technicians training and supervision;


• Ensure the development of IT tools for raw data management and analysis in connection with the Bioresearch analytical needs;


• Provide hands-on research support for the Bioresearch team whenever necessary;


• Contribute actively to the quality of the Translational Laboratory by ensuring the drafting and filling of operating instructions, laboratory analysis plans and report documents as well as the planning of maintenances;


• Ensure the training of colleagues on new technologies and IT analyses tools.

Requirements

Your profile:

• Ph.D. in life science, postdoctoral experience is an advantage.


• Very good knowledge in cellular biology (incl. transfection and CRISPR) and immunology (ELISA, MSD, immunoblotting, immunostaining, fluorescent microscopy and flow cytometry).


• Very good knowledge in molecular biology (DNA/RNA preparation, qPCR, sequencing).


• Strong proficiency in analytical and IT tools (MS Office, R language, Shiny, Matlab, FlowJo, Graphpad, ImageJ).


• Excellent teamworking skills.


• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Debiopharm can offer you:

• An international and highly dynamic environment.


• The opportunity to join a successful company, at the forefront of the most advanced scientific developments in the industry covering various therapeutics approaches (small molecules, biologics, and radiopharmaceuticals).


• The possibility to be in a company in which innovation, people and entrepreneurship are the fundamentals of its success.