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Research Scientist /Associate Research Scientist- Protein Science

Salary: £25,000-£41,000 pa flexible according to experience and level

Contract type/ hours: Permanent/ full time 35 hours (flexible working requests considered)

Location: Granta Park, Cambridge UK

Application Deadline: Sunday 18th September at 23.55. This vacancy may close earlier if a high number of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found, so please do not delay submitting your application to avoid any disappointment.

About Cancer Research Horizons

At Cancer Research UK, our focus is on beating cancer. As the world's biggest medical research charity, we've helped bring eleven new cancer drugs to market. However, there is still an urgent need to bring more effective treatments to patients faster.

We have recently developed a new approach to driving therapeutic innovation through the creation of Cancer Research Horizons. We have brought together Cancer Research UK's established drug discovery teams under one organisation and leadership team, combining our unique pipeline of world class biology, cutting edge technology platforms and clinical expertise to 1) bring new treatments to patients faster and 2) tackle the biggest challenges in discovering cancer drugs by seeking out more radical ideas and embracing risk in our bid to achieve success.

Based at the Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, the Milner Institute in Cambridge, Granta Park in Cambridge, the Beatson Institute in Glasgow, the Francis Crick Institute in London, and Newcastle University, Cancer Research Horizons employs ~200 staff from both industrial and academic backgrounds.

We have a major focus on establishing and prosecuting biologically-themed multi-project alliances with industrial partners, or through creation of new companies.

We bring together the best minds in basic and clinical cancer research, the diligence and drive of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and our in-house drug discovery and alliance management capabilities to deliver breakthrough medicines for cancer patients.

What will I be doing?

This is a laboratory-based Scientist / Associate Scientist role within the Cancer Research Horizons - AstraZeneca Antibody Alliance Laboratory. In this role you will bring additional protein production expertise and you will play a role in all aspects of protein science within the Alliance Laboratory's Drug Discovery cascade. Crucial to this role will be the ability to work efficiently and flexibly to deliver protein reagents required to meet the demands of a drug discovery cascade.

Key duties include:

• Express proteins, including antibodies and antibody fragments in mammalian and bacterial expression systems on a small to medium scale, in line with production demands of antibody drug discovery projects

• Maintain mammalian cell lines for protein expression

• Maintain protein and antibody inventory

• QC proteins to ensure high quality using SDS-PAGE, HPLC, Western Blot, ELISA

• Contribute to the Protein Science capabilities within the laboratory

• Efficiently undertake molecular biology tasks such as restriction digest cloning.

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