Senior Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - In Silico Discovery

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Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

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

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) is recruiting for a Senior Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - In Silico Discovery to join our Therapeutics Discovery team located in either San Diego, CA (La Jolla area) or Spring House, PA (Philadelphia area). 

The Therapeutics Discovery organization within JJIM is continuing to build scientific expertise in modeling, screening, pharmacology and chemistry to partner closely with therapeutic area scientists to develop groundbreaking new medicines in the areas of Immunology, Neuroscience and Oncology.

 The In Silico Discovery (ISD) group in Therapeutics Discovery is seeking two excellent scientists to bring their expertise to exciting and novel areas of computational drug design.

Key Responsibilities Include:


* Design therapeutic molecules and calculate their properties using state-of-the-art methodologies integrating chemical, biological and structural data, cheminformatics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques


* Serve as a scientific expert and to contribute in multi-disciplinary discovery project teams that include synthetic chemists, structural biologists, and other discovery scientists, by providing key computational expertise to advance drug discovery projects


* Collaborate within Janssen and with external academic and industrial partners to develop new computational technologies to address key questions in drug discovery


* Publish results in peer reviewed journals and present at scientific meetings


* Mentor junior scientists and/ or interns fostering their development as expert computational drug hunters


* Contribute to efforts to evaluate and assess novel protein targets of interest for their ligandability and tractabi...