Senior Scientist Regenerative Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease

Would you like to apply your expertise in a global company that is accelerating innovative science and turn ideas into life changing medicines? Join us to discover future treatment of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases!
Working at AstraZeneca means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. We are now recruiting a Senior Scientist with deep knowledge in cardiovascular disease, stem cells and regenerative medicine to join the Bioscience Cardiovascular department within the Early Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (eCVRM) therapeutic area at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg, Sweden. As the Senior Scientist, you will be a key player in the department with opportunity to directly influence science and capabilities to ensure cutting-edge scientific leadership both today and in the future. You will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of cardiovascular research and continue to demonstrate scientific leadership through high quality publications, conference presentations and by building networks and collaborations with key opinion leaders and academic groups.
CVRM is one of three main therapeutic research areas within AstraZeneca. Early CVRM has a patient-centric approach for discovering novel treatments for patients with cardiovascular-, chronic kidney- and metabolic disease and delivers candidate drugs into late-stage clinical development. Here you will be part of an international, open-minded, and creative working atmosphere based on collaboration and innovation. You will report to the Team Lead for In Vivo Cardiovascular Bioscience.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
You will work as an expert in cardiovascular disease and cardiac regeneration. You will generate data in the lab and have the opportunity to explore novel science required for progressing existing portfolio. Collaboration is critical for successful delivery of drug projects, and you will work closely with scientists/teams from a wide range of different functions within AstraZeneca as well as with external partners and collaborators. Responsibilities include:
Provide scientific expertise in cardiovascular disease, stem cells and regenerative medicine and maintain deep understanding of the science in heart failure and regenerative medicine
Identify and explore novel drug targets and champion these to become new projects
Take responsibility as bioscience lead in drug projects
Independently design, develop and execute in vitro and in vivo experiments for projects from target identification to clinical stage
Independently analyze and interpret generated data
Communicate data to the project teams, department, science board and at external meetings
Build and maintain a network to key internal and external stakeholders and leading research institutions
Encourage, support, and directly contribute to communications of scientific findings through publications and presentations in world class scientific journals and meetings
Work collaboratively within Bioscience and other functions throughout AstraZeneca to deliver on key project activities

Essential for the role
PhD or equivalent academic merits in cardiovascular field or regenerative medicine
Postdoc experience in regenerative medicine and stem cells
Background in drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry
Very strong experience with pluripotent stem cells and various cardiovascular cells including cardiac progenitor cells, cardiomyocytes, epicardial derived cells, endothelial cells
Strong scientific background and publication track record in cardiovascular disease, cardiac regeneration or developmental biology
Extensive experience in cell and molecular biology and relevant in vitro assays within the cardiovascular area (such as proliferation), differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into cardiovascular cells, imaging, organoids
In vivo experience (rodents), including design, handling, surgery
Entrepreneurial ways of working
Good collaboration skills
Strong oral and written communication skills