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Scientist - Target Information Group (Immunology/Bioinformatics)

Employer
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Location
Tarrytown, NY, United States
Start date
Jun 28, 2019

Job Details

Known for its scientific and operational excellence, Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high LDL-cholesterol, atopic dermatitis and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, pain, cancer and infectious diseases.

Summary
Working as a member of the Target Information Group and utilizing expertise in immunology and bioinformatics, conduct in-depth analysis of protein targets and/or target families such as assessing gene expression, protein structure/function, and biological/medical relevance. Investigations may include the analysis of large data sets from human and mouse studies directed to understanding the molecular basis of human disease. The ideal candidate will be responsible for searching, assembling and translating the biology and genetics of target-disease associations and providing an assessment of the strengths and weakness of different analytical methods and individual studies.

Responsibilities
The duties of this position will involve working closely with members of each of the Regeneron Therapeutic Focus Areas (TFA's) to identify and evaluate specific target(s) and disease indications and to deliver in a timely fashion, a balanced analysis for each topic which may require consultations with internal and external experts in multiple therapeutic areas.
While the analysis may vary between TFA's, reports generated by the Target Information Group shall include; relevance of immunological systems to the indicated disease state, a detailed review of all relevant publications; genomic and gene expression analysis, identification of trends in research, preclinical, and clinical activities in academia/industry on the target/therapeutic areas; review of patent landscape around targets and the analysis of new therapeutic opportunities surrounding novel drug candidates or disease mechanisms.

Importantly, the information is to be translated directly to TFA groups, as well as to internal "knowledge base" resources for archiving and sharing across research and development groups.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Identifies, reviews and evaluates new drug targets, opportunities and potential strategies for early and late stage drug development across a wide range of therapeutic areas.

• Participates in complex biological evaluations, detailed genomic database and literature reviews and consultations with experts in multiple therapeutic areas.

• Writes summary reports and presents reviews and recommendations to research teams and management.

• Analyzes development opportunities from the research perspective across a wide range of therapeutic areas.

• Contributes to the development and optimization of "knowledge base" intranet resources and facilitate archiving, sharing and leveraging of development program review information.

• Conducts text-based searching using state-of-the art tools involving natural language processing(e.g. Linguamatics)

• Works with information management systems such as Sharepoint, Qlikview, etc

Requirements

• Knowledge and Specialized Skills:

Must have demonstrated the ability to identify key information sources and analyze public literature, the ability to mine gene, protein, patent and proprietary databases and to prepare concise summaries on a range of topics.

• Must remain flexible in taking on new tasks and establish credibility and rapport as well as communicate effectively with research colleagues and senior management.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams or in a matrix environment is highly desired. Preference given to candidates with experience in immunology and bioinformatics

• Education and Experience: Ph.D. and 4+ years experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech industry or a highly collaborative environment

This is an opportunity to join our select team that is already leading the way in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Apply today and learn more about Regeneron's unwavering commitment to combining good science & good business.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Regeneron about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Regeneron via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Regeneron, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Regeneron for this position and a valid agreement with Regeneron is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the Regeneron agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Company

Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for 30 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to seven FDA-approved treatments and numerous product candidates in development, all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye disease, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, infectious diseases, pain and rare diseases.
 
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune® which produces optimized fully-human antibodies, and ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.

Stock Symbol: REGN

Stock Exchange: NASDAQ

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Company info
Website
Phone
914-847-7000
Location
Corporate Headquarters
777 Old Saw Mill River Road
Tarrytown
New York
10591
United States

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