About this role
Are you ready to push the boundaries of synthetic chemistry to help transform how cancer is treated? See your ideas move from bench to candidate selection and ultimately reach patients who need new options most. Join AstraZeneca's passion for innovative medicines in key healthcare areas.
Work on projects from Lead Optimisation through to candidate selection as part of the Medicinal Chemistry Discovery Process group. Conceive and implement innovative synthetic strategies. Use personal lab delivery expertise to solve complex chemistry problems.
Join a hardworking chemist team in Cambridge on a permanent basis. Collaborate with an outstanding group discovering, developing and delivering drugs to the right people. Contribute to practical delivery for life-changing patient survival impact.
Explore amazing things science can do at a state-of-the-art research centre on Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Bring together finest talent from business and academia. Make an outstanding worldwide difference in a brand-new vision for a critical industry.
Requirements
- Degree or Ph.D. in a chemistry-related discipline
- Practical experience of synthetic chemistry delivery with awareness of scale up and route development to deliver multi-gram quantities of intermediates and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
- Expert knowledge of contemporary synthetic organic chemistry
- Ability to deliver innovative solutions to projects
- Ability to propose experimental strategies and troubleshoot laboratory-based problems
Responsibilities
- Conceive and implement innovative synthetic strategies
- Use lab delivery expertise to solve complex chemistry problems
- Propose experimental strategies
- Troubleshoot laboratory-based problems
- Make positive contribution to practical delivery
- Work on projects from Lead Optimisation through to candidate selection
- Deliver next generation of Oncology medicines
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