Senior Scientist, Retinal Discovery

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Scientist, Retinal Discovery located in Cambridge MA to support drug discovery of novel therapeutics for retinal disease.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented lab-based Senior Scientist to join our Retinal Diseases Discovery team located in Cambridge, MA (USA). The successful candidate will join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of exploratory scientists and play a key role in the evaluation of new drug concepts using relevant model systems. He/she will use emerging developments in these fields to generate novel target ideas and provide technical and strategic input with the goal of progressing novel drug candidates into translational development. The qualified candidate will work in cross-functional teams, including translational medicine, discovery, biomarker teams, program project teams and disease-specific working groups, to shape a discovery and development strategy for novel drug candidates and will bring forward novel translational animal models and innovative technologies to support the discovery pipeline.

This role is laboratory-based and requires an established background in retinal cell biology, neuroscience, or immunology. Responsibilities include the execution of discovery projects to develop new retinal disease therapies and expand the retina portfolio. The selected candidate will contribute to research programs through validation of new targets and design and execution of team-based research to help drive project advancements.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and conduct experiments to support new target validation, analysis and interpretation of results, with focus on in vitro and retinal in vivo assays/models to support discovery and translational drug development programs.

• Establish robust discovery and/or translational data packages to support the translational progression of our differentiated assets and present progress to discovery, translational, governance and leadership teams.

• Establish and execute against timelines to enable project progression while working in a fast-paced and highly matrixed environment.

• Support collaborations with academic investigators, including advising on experimentation and analysis of results, and conducting complementary experiments.

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of technical reports, patent applications, and manuscripts as appropriate.

• Ensure compliance with all company training, documentation, and ensure safe laboratory working practices.