UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage Posted Date:
Jan 10 2025
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
Please note this position is lab based.
We are looking for a highly motivated scientist with experience in microfluidics, fluorescence and label-free microscopy, applied to organoid cultures and oncology cellular biology to join the Oncology Translational Research team within GSK Oncology TA.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team that, by creating a new platform for organoids on a chip combined with a microfluidic system, will develop and implement cutting-edge cellular, genomic and molecular techniques with a multimodality analytic approach, plus produce data that will inform machine learning models to improve cancer patient risk stratification as well as to predict future targeted and/or immuno-therapy susceptibilities.
In this role you will
Set up organoid-on-a-chip platforms, combining different cell types (immune cells/ fibroblasts/tumor cells/endothelial cells) Develop a microfluidic system for modelling immune cell action and drug penetration into 3D organoids models Develop protocols for imaging and single-cell analysis Collect and report data to the lab head Execute and deliver the project
Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: MSc in Cell Biology/Oncology/Biotechnology/ Engineering Bioengineering Experience in 3D organ-on-a-chip system and in 3D cell culture techniques (patient-derived organoids) Experience in microfluidic and chip devices Ability to communicate with team members from different backgrounds by training/discipline, as well as senior members of the GSK stakeholders/research partner units Ability to deliver high quality, consistent results in a timely fashion with a positive can-do and result oriented attitude
Preferred Qualifications
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply: PhD in Cell Biology/Oncology or Bioengineering Laboratory automation experience Experience with cancer immunology Experience in wide-field imaging and/or confocal microscopy
Closing Date for Applications - Friday 24th of January 2025(COB)
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together. #J-18808-Ljbffr