Research Fellow - Medicinal Chemistry

Job Description
Job Description
Biogen is one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies, with a focus on developing therapies for serious conditions in neurology, immunology, and rare diseases. We are committed to research that uncovers the underlying biology of complex diseases. The Medicinal Chemistry group at Biogen is seeking a creative and self-motivated Research Fellow to design, develop, and apply synthetic methodologies to tackle challenging chemistry issues within one of our internal drug discovery programs. The Research Fellow role at Biogen is an 18-month position designed to provide a unique opportunity for scientists to gain exposure to drug discovery and development and train in an industry research setting. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-function teams and leverage your strong chemistry background to tackle challenging synthetic issues in the project team to enable the synthesis of key project compounds.
What You’ll Do
Your main focus will be to design synthetic routes and utilize state of the art organic chemistry to enable the synthesis of targets to be tested against a neurodegenerative disease.
You will have the opportunity to leverage Biogen’s Internal capabilities:
High throughput Experimentation, Parallel Medicinal Chemistry, Purification Service
You will have the opportunity to utilize our lab's modern chemistry equipment (UPLC, NMR, Isco, glovebox, and photoreactors).
As a full member of med chem team you will help prioritize targets, learn potency/ADME SAR, property-based design, ligand-based design, and be involved with team discussions.
You will have the opportunity to present results both internally and externally via publications and/or conference presentations