Principal Scientist, Cancer Immunology

Proclinical is currently recruiting for a Principal Scientist of Cancer Immunology with a consultancy firm located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Principal Scientist, you will provide day-to-day leadership for the target validation platform development efforts. Specifically, the successful candidate will design, develop, and apply cutting-edge methods to accelerate target validation process for novel cancer immunotherapy development.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop in-depth scientific knowledge in the area of research focus and contribute to the decision making on project direction.
• Provide scientific expertise and train/direct junior lab members in research techniques.
• Oversee the assay design and optimization efforts of junior lab members.
• Establish novel mechanistic insights addressing impact of novel target.
• Propose targets for experimental prosecution and design appropriate assays to validate each target and the biological hypothesis.
• Implement assays on a rolling basis to integrate platform learnings to increase sophistication of target validation.
• Lead efforts to develop and scale target validation scope and throughout over time.
• Works with and reports to the scientific founders and the Program Coordinator to investigate the most promising targets within the tumor microenvironment for the development of therapeutics.

Skills and Requirements:

• PhD in immunology with 4+ years of post-doctoral experience in academia or industry, experience in immuno-oncology is required.
• Proven ability to successful drive and lead research projects.
• Demonstrated record of success with strong publication record.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively supervise, inspire, and develop research associates.
• Experience performing and analyzing a broad array of molecular, cellular biological and immunology methods.
• Experience in working under GLP standards (writing research reports, SOPs, and IND sections) and ensuring safety compliance under BSL-2 is a plus.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interpret, summarize, and present scientific results in a clear, concise, accurate manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to deal with uncertainty and solve problems creatively and independently with solid judgement.
• The ideal candidate has demonstrated success in highly dynamic research and/or biotech setting.6+ years of experience post PhD, with preferably at least 2 years of experience in an industry setting preferred.
• Experience advancing assets from target discovery through validation preferred.
• Experience collaborating with computational teams preferred.

If you are having difficulty in applying or if you have any questions, please contact Natasha Patel at (+1) 617-778-7319 or n.patel@proclinical.com.

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