Pharmaceutical and Material Sciences is a department of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Development & Supply (CPDS) of Janssen Research & Development. Within the department resides the High-Throughput and Preformulation Sciences (HTPS) team, leading activities to understand the physicochemical and biopharmaceutical properties of potential drug candidates and their formulations.

Within the HTPS team, there is a full-time opening for a

Scientist High-Throughput & Preformulation Sciences
Job description

• Design, plan, execute, interpret and report experiments to understand the physico-chemical and biopharmaceutics properties of drug substances and their formulations including solubility, dissolution/precipitation rate, solid state, pKa, LogP, ...

• Operate (robotic) high throughput lab equipment (e.g. Hamilton Star, Chemspeed) to support drug and formulation screenings (e.g. nanosuspensions, solid dispersions, solutions)

• Participate in the evaluation of new analytical techniques in the area of high throughput and preformulation sciences, automated workflows and biorelevant testing.

• Work in a multidisciplinary team of researchers, internally as well as externally.• Bachelor or Master in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Pharmaceutical/Biomedical Sciences or a related science with relevant industrial experience

• Knowledge of relevant techniques for physicochemical characterization of active ingredient, materials and formulations

• High Affinity for lab environment, a can-do mentality and ambition to grow in a lab based role

• Comfortable with the technical and IT aspects of an automated lab environment

• Ability to actively gain scientific and technical insights related to the job content

• Highly motivated team player, with excellent interpersonal, communication, and collaborative skills

• Fluent English (both spoken and written) with a willingness to learn the basics of the Dutch language