*Structural Biologist *
*Location: Central London, UK*
*12 month fixed-term contract*
*Salary dependent on experience*
**
Cancer Research Technology (CRT) is a specialist drug discovery,
technology transfer and commercialisation company which aims to advance
new discoveries to beat cancer. At the present time CRT employs some 140
people, including a large complement of scientists and business
development specialists across multiple sites in the UK, with close
partnerships working with associated operations in the USA. As a wholly
owned subsidiary of Cancer Research UK, we have extensive experience in
developing and licensing oncology related opportunities with world-class
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
To help achieve this goal, the CRT Discovery Laboratories based in
Central London and Cambridge aim, through multidisciplinary teams of
scientists, to undertake drug discovery programmes on exciting novel
cancer targets to develop small moleculetherapies.
We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated protein scientist /
structural biologist to join our X-ray structure determination team.The
team has access to state-of-the-art data collection and crystallization
facilitieswithinthe School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London
and is adjacent to CRT’s Discovery Laboratories within the Wolfson
Institute of Biomedical Research, University College London.
The successful candidate should have experience in one or more of the
following areas:
* Production and characterization of crystallization-grade protein for
structural analysis
* Crystallization screening and optimization of protein-ligand complexes
* X-ray data collection and structure determination
You should ideally be qualified to PhD level or equivalent. In addition,
you will possess excellent communication and organisation skills, and
will be able to contribute positively to interactive collaborations
within CRT, Cancer Research UK laboratories and other external
organisations.Previousexperience within a pharmaceutical environment
would be desirable.
Please note that applications will only be accepted from candidates who
have proof of their right to work in the U.K.
To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter, *quoting
the reference number XR1304*, to the Head of Medicinal Chemistry by
email to crtrecruitm...@cancertechnology.com
<mailto:crtrecruitm...@cancertechnology.com>
*Closing Date: 6^th May 2013*//
/No Agencies/**
/CRT is an equal opportunities employer/
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Prof Nicholas H. Keep
Executive Dean of School of Science
Professor of Biomolecular Science
Crystallography, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences
Birkbeck, University of London,
Malet Street,
Bloomsbury
LONDON
WC1E 7HX
email n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
Telephone 020-7631-6852 (Room G54a Office)
020-7631-6800 (Department Office)
Fax 020-7631-6803
If you want to access me in person you have to come to the
crystallography entrance
and ring me or the department office from the internal phone by the door
