Senior Scientist – Toxicology

AbCellera is a nimble, energetic, and quickly growing tech company that searches, decodes, and analyzes natural immune systems to find antibodies that its partners can develop into drugs to prevent and treat disease. This role offers the exciting opportunity to join one of Canada’s top biotech companies, while growing with a team that believes in collaboration, innovation, and mutual support.

We are seeking an experienced and exceptional individual for the role of Senior Scientist – Toxicology. This scientist will help to build our pharm-tox capabilities and increase confidence in our animal modeling so we can help our partners move faster and with less risk to the clinic. Through close collaboration across the company this role will help identify the best antibodies for the job. The successful scientist will be responsible for key toxicology studies to support intended clinical investigations, in close collaboration with our partners and external vendors. We need someone who has a passion for understanding how models can predict responses in humans.

How you might spend your days:

• Constructing and running decisional regulatory toxicology programs for antibody drug candidates across a wide range of disease areas and indications
• Assessing and selecting vendors, building relationships with a network of external resources, designing and monitoring nonclinical studies
• Reviewing, interpreting and integrating nonclinical safety data
• Preparing nonclinical strategy and safety summaries in support of IND and clinical trial applications
• Guiding and educating project teams, and mentoring individual scientists
• Collaborating with teams across the company to solve problems, analyze, interpret and communicate data
• Evaluating new technology and testing new models to better predict human adverse responses
• Reporting findings to our teams and partners to support data-driven decision making

We’d love to hear from you if:

• You are genuinely curious, with an interest in discussing innovative ideas in a highly collaborative and face paced environment
• You are good at communicating scientific and/or technical concepts with an emphasis on application
• You are comfortable working independently to identify project needs then following that up by collaboratively constructing and implementing solutions
• You enjoy the teamwork that comes with working on complicated biological questions and building data sets that help to predict the success of therapies

Required qualifications and experience:

• PhD in Toxicology or related discipline with working knowledge of the drug development process and 8+ years practical work experience in a biopharmaceutical industry environment
• Demonstrated proficiency in antibody drug development
• Significant experience with authoring/reviewing project plans, study protocols, study reports, and safety summaries to ensure appropriate toxicology datasets are accurately generated and interpreted
• Familiar with authoring/reviewing sections of regulatory submissions
• Proven interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively as a member of cross-functional team

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with immuno-oncology and/or inflammation

Offers & benefits:

A generous compensation package including an equity stake in AbCellera’s success. Our headquarters are nestled in the heart of Vancouver, Canada - we’ll support you and your family in every way we can to relocate if you haven’t had the joy of living in this beautiful area!

About AbCellera:

At AbCellera, we find the next generation of therapeutic antibodies. To succeed, we have created innovative solutions at every step - custom antigen preparation and immunizations, microfluidics, high-throughput imaging, genomics, computation, machine learning and laboratory automation - leaving no stone unturned and revolutionizing how scientists can explore natural antibody diversity and the scale at which they can do it. You’ll join a diverse and multi-disciplinary team of biologists, biochemists, engineers, bioinformaticians, computer scientists and physicists - all working together to bring better therapies to patients. This is life-changing research and you could be a part of it.

We’re a growing company with state-of-the-art discovery tools and the drive to be the best in the industry. This isn’t just about having the best technology. We know we need a world-class team of innovators working together to solve the toughest problems. We look for people with drive and energy. Idealists. People we love and people we trust. This may be unconventional, but it is the key to our success. We’re looking for someone like you to support and organize our efforts along the way.

To apply:

Please submit your application through our website and refer to Job ID 20261 in your cover letter. We apologize in advance, but we receive a large volume of applications and are only able to contact those who are selected for an interview.

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