Principal Scientist

Principal Scientist - Safety Pharmacology RIA

Business Area - Research and Development
Specialism - Drug Safety Metabolism Imed
Department - Translational Safety
Location - Molndal

Description

As a Principal Scientist - Safety Pharmacology RIA at AstraZeneca, you'll lead safety pharmacology expertise and input into our Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmune portfolio which is one of our core therapeutic areas. It's an opportunity to be at the cutting edge of translational safety pharmacology science in a brand-new department.

AstraZeneca - Health Connects Us All

As one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, our business is focused on providing innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference in important areas of healthcare. At AstraZeneca, innovation is about more than just research. We aim to stimulate continued creativity throughout our organisation by maintaining a culture in which our people feel valued, energised and rewarded for their ideas and contribution to our success - ideas which can make a difference in all aspects of our business. And we support and encourage our people in discovering their own potential, through excellent learning and development opportunities that are available to them throughout their careers.

As a Principal Scientist - Safety Pharmacology RIA your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

-A PhD-level education (or equivalent) in toxicology, pathology or a related scientific discipline
-A detailed knowledge of physiology, toxicology and safety pharmacology
-Extensive experience of safety pharmacology in drug discovery and development in a drug safety setting
-A detailed knowledge of relevant legislation and developments in the pharmaceutical industry
-A track record of publications in the safety pharmacology field
-Experience of clinical or preclinical research in a pharmaceutical environment
-An awareness of local compliance systems and regulations
-A working knowledge of patent and IP strategies

As a Principal Scientist - Safety Pharmacology RIA your main responsibilities will involve:

-Providing high quality strategic and scientific safety pharmacology support to the Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmune portfolio at all stages of drug discovery and development
-Ensuring the timely delivery of high quality experimental safety pharmacology data to enable effective decision making and successful regulatory submission and registration
-Authoring relevant sections of regulatory submission documents and driving the publication of safety pharmacology data
-Developing predictions and conclusions from research

What we will be looking for in you:

We'll need to see innovation, flexibility, and commitment to customers.

To apply for this position - please use this link:
http://gs.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_astrazenecav2.asp?newms=se