What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) – La Jolla, California position at Johnson & Johnson?
Job Description - Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) – La Jolla, California (2506230924W)
Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD, Computational Chemistry) - La Jolla, California - 2506230924W
Description
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) is recruiting for a Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD, Computational Chemistry) , to join our In Silico Drug Discovery team located in San Diego, California (La Jolla area).
The In Silico Discovery Unit is a computational discovery team embedded in the Therapeutics Discovery organization, responsible for driving all aspects of computational drug discovery across J&J’s Therapeutic Areas. The In Silico Discovery (ISD) group is seeking 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 in multi-disciplinary discovery project teams that include synthetic chemists, structural biologists, and other discovery scientists, by providing key expertise in the use and interpretation of data related to drug targets and their ligands.
- 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, fostering their development as expert computational drug hunters.
Qualifications :
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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