Postdoctoral Researcher, Ophthalmology

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

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Post Doc – Drug Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.

Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Our Ophthalmology team tackles the world’s toughest ocular health challenges, particularly in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with a focus on geographic atrophy (GA).

This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher studying Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) biology in the blinding disease of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Geographic Atrophy (GA).

This is a fixed-term position for 2 years, located in Cambridge, MA, with potential for extension to 3 years.

This exceptional scientist will join the Ophthalmology Discovery team within the Neuroscience Discovery organization.

In this role, the individual will bring expertise in understanding the role of RPE integrity and metabolic health in the progression of AMD/GA disease.

The scientist will collaborate closely with a cross-functional team, utilizing in vitro iPSC models and in vivo models, and samples from human donors to understand the disease biology and describe the implication of specific pathway disturbances to identify disease modifiers and support ophthalmology discovery strategies.

These efforts will help ensure that regulators, payer...