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Senior Scientist – Translational Science (Immunology)
About Us
The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences (SCMMS) is one of six schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) at King College London. The school drives translation of world-leading basic science into advances in clinical practices with activities focusing on the Cardiac Biomedicine Department of Diabetes and Vascular Biomedicine.
About The Role
Astex Pharmaceuticals is a world leader in innovative drug discovery and development. The company has successfully applied its proprietary Fragment-Based Drug Discovery platform to generate multiple new drug candidates that are progressing in clinical development. Successful collaborations have led to three launched oncology drugs (Kisqali® partnered with Novartis, Balversa® partnered with Janssen and Truqap™ partnered with AstraZeneca). Astex continues to grow and focuses on Neurological Disorders and Oncology.
The Role
Company Overview
BugBiome is developing bioinsecticides derived from the crop microbiome. We isolate and characterise beneficial microbes, screening them for natural insecticidal properties using phenotypic screening of insect behaviour.
Role Summary
Company: Metrion Biosciences
Location: Granta Park, Cambridge, UK
Contract: Permanent, full-time
About Metrion
Metrion Biosciences (‘Metrion’) is a UK-based, ion channel focused Contract Research Organisation (CRO) providing high-quality in vitro preclinical drug discovery and safety profiling services. From our headquarters at Granta Park, Cambridge, we support a global customer base with cardiac safety profiling, ion channel drug discovery screening, medicinal chemistry screening support, and neuroscience assay services.
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The Cambridge-Oxford-London corridor is widely regarded as one of the most productive life sciences clusters in the world, home to hundreds of biotechnology companies, globally recognised research institutions and a rapidly expanding venture capital ecosystem.
Pharmaron is a global CRO helping pharma and biotech companies bring new therapies to life. With over 25,000 employees worldwide across our sites in the UK, US, and China, we support drug discovery through to manufacturing with fully integrated, high‑quality R&D services.
We're proud of the impact we make—supporting hundreds of discovery projects, CMC programmes, and clinical trials each year. Our teams work across a wide range of therapeutic modalities, from small molecules to advanced biologics and gene therapies, partnering with more than 3,000 customers globally.