Postdoc

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 Function:
Career Programs

Job Sub Function:
Post Doc – R&D Product Development

Job Category:
Career Program

All Job Posting Locations:
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM) develops treatments that improve the health of people worldwide.

Research and development areas encompass oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, immunology, pulmonary hypertension, neuroscience, and infectious disease.

Our goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives.

We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market – from patients to practitioners and from clinics to hospitals.

To learn more about J&J Innovative Medicine, visit https:// https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.

The J&J IM Discovery, Product Development, & Supply (DPDS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program helps early career scientists gain the training and experience needed to further their careers while addressing the needs of global healthcare.

Postdocs work side-by-side with DPDS scientists on innovative research projects and have the opportunity to present their work.

They also learn the functional role of scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and receive valuable career advice from mentors while building a network of professional contacts and developing the skills needed to advance their careers.

As part of the DPDS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, we are seeking a talented Postdoc scientist to work within the Drug Product Development & Delivery embedded within the Advanced Therapies Leiden, Netherlands site and collaborate closely with various functions in J&J IM (eg.

analytical development, API, discovery pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, dissolution sciences, data sciences and interventional oncology).

The postdoc will interact frequently and in-person with colleagues located in the Beerse, Belgium site,  which is approximately 1.5h drive from the Leiden site.

This 2-year Postdoc program will focus on the development of in vitro and in silico models to assess and improve drug product formulation properties for local administration to support (pre)clinical development and further optimize targeting efficiency.

The interface will be explored in detail where the specific aspects of the drug delivery formulations, administration devices and targeted tissues are coming together.

As a Postdoc s...