10 PhD positions in ITN project ‘PET imaging in Drug Design and Development’ (PET3D) within HORIZON 2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN-ETN PET3D-programme in “PET imaging in Drug Design and Development” comprises a total of 15 cutting edge research projects in three main therapeutic areas of oncology, cardiovascular and central nervous system at eight beneficiary institutions, providing research and training in the field of drug design and health. PET imaging has the potential to revolutionize drug design and development by providing reliable answers at a much earlier stage of drug development to ke…

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Postdoctoral Studies in Biomedical Science and Neuroscience, Protein Design, Drug Design, Computational Structural Biology at UCLA School of Medicine

Two highly motivated and detail-oriented postdoctoral research associate are sought to lead cutting-edge research in the Jiang Laboratory of computational structural biology and drug design in the Department of Neurology at UCLA. Will work closely with a highly collaborative internal team of scientists and engineers as well as interact with interdisciplinary collaborators across UCLA and UCSD.

The Jiang Lab (http://ift.tt/20rZDeM) takes structure-based computational approaches to…

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PhD fellow in Molecular Pharmacology

We have an open position for a PhD fellow in the EU-funded European Training Network “Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaSR): therapeutics for Non-Communicable Diseases (CaSR Biomedicine)”.

The PhD position is at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Expected starting date October 1, 2016.
The application deadline is March 31, 2016.

Project title: Delineation of CaSR signalling in primary cells and cell lines …

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Faculty Position in Drug Discovery, Department of Pharmacology

The Department of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal is receiving applications for a full-time academic position at the level of assistant or associate research professor in the fields of Drug design and discovery with an emphasis on assay development, novel screening methods, identification of bioactive compounds (from chemical libraries and/or from natural products), chemical biology or systems pharmacology. Candidates with expertise that complement the research …

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Drug Discovery Opportunities at D. E. Shaw Research

D. E. Shaw Research is seeking outstanding scientists with expertise in structure-based drug design or related areas to join our New York–based team. This is a unique opportunity to develop and work with transformative technology in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.

Areas relevant to our efforts include computer-aided drug design, fragment-based approaches, molecular modeling, cheminformatics and bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, and target analysis and selection. Specific know…

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Two Postdoctoral positions within molecular function and pharmacology of ion channels

Two Postdoctoral positions within molecular function and pharmacology of ion channels

The Pless laboratory (http://theplesslab.com) in the Center for Biopharmaceuticals at the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology is offering two temporary postdoctoral positions within molecular function and pharmacology of ion channels in the period from 17 May 2016 to 16 May 2018

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Faculty positions available at the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology (Nankai University)

Faculty positions available at the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology (Nankai University)
The State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology (SKLMCB, Nankai University, Tianjin, China), is a multi-disciplinary research institute. Current research directions include: 1. Molecular mechanisms of disease conditions; 2. Structure-based drug design; 3. Drug delivery and bioimaging. The laboratory building of SKLMCB is more than 20000 square meters. We already have 10 basic resea…

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Staff Scientist

Staff Scientist – somatic cancer bioinformatics to support novel drug design
Postdoctoral staff scientist: a systematic approach for defining how protein structures are affected by somatic mutations in cancer.
Salary range from £30574 to £38564per annum plus excellent benefits. Fixed-term: 3 years

We are looking for a postdoctoral staff scientist experienced in structural bioinformatics who will bring protein structural knowledge and perspectives to the cancer genomics system COSMIC. The pr…

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Drug Discovery Opportunities at D. E. Shaw Research

D. E. Shaw Research is seeking outstanding scientists with expertise in structure-based drug design or related areas to join our New York–based team. This is a unique opportunity to develop and work with transformative technology in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.

Areas relevant to our efforts include computer-aided drug design, fragment-based approaches, molecular modeling, cheminformatics and bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, and target analysis and selection. Specific knowledg…

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Computational Chemist, Computational Chemistry & Structural Biology

The Computational Chemistry group is part of the Division of Discovery Chemistry and DMPK (around 60 employees) within Lundbeck Research DK and currently consists of 5 full time PhD level employees. The group is responsible for all the computational chemistry/computer-assisted drug design (CADD) efforts in Lundbeck Research, as well as the structural biology and biophysical fragment screening resources. Lundbeck is member of the GPCR consortium (http://ift.tt/1A74Qh7), and this collaboration…

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Computational Chemist

Heptares is a Drug Discovery company (www.heptares.com) which applies structure-based approaches to identify novel therapeutic agents targeting G protein coupled receptors involved in CNS and metabolic diseases. Heptares is located at the Biopark facility in Hertfordshire UK.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated senior scientist with substantial experience in computational chemistry / Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) to join the Computational Chemistry team and assist Heptares in ou…

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Two Postdoctoral Positions within Drug Discovery and Protein Biochemistry

The Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is offering two temporary postdoctoral positions within Fragment-based drug discovery against CNS protein targets. The positions are for two years from January 18th, 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter with the possibility of extension.

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The Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology delivers research and teaching within a wide range of drug-related disciplines, s…

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Drug Discovery Opportunities at D. E. Shaw Research

D. E. Shaw Research is seeking outstanding scientists with expertise in structure-based drug design or related areas to join our New York–based team. This is a unique opportunity to develop and work with transformative technology in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.

Areas relevant to our efforts include computer-aided drug design, fragment-based approaches, molecular modeling, cheminformatics and bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, and target analysis and selection. Specific know…

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