About the Role
We are seeking a talented and accomplished drug hunter to help build out and advance Valo’s Discovery team and therapeutic portfolio. Leveraging your experience along with Valo’s unique computational + experimental discovery platform you will make core contributions to program prioritization, leadership and prosecution to deliver drug candidates. As part of our partnership with Charles River Labs, you will lead the medicinal chemistry design and progression of on-going Logica programs. You will be part of a team who is driven to develop and utilize AI based tools to greatly enhance to drug discovery process.
What you’ll do…
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Lead drug discovery efforts on internal programs and programs conducted through Logica offering
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Work closely with a team of experienced drug hunters and data scientists to identify and prioritize opportunities for creating novel and impactful medicines
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Lead integrated, multi-disciplinary teams to discover compelling drug candidates; effectively communicate progress toward goals in team meetings, company-wide events and external forums; manage resources to achieve goals; recruit, manage and mentor other program leads
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Collaborate across many disciplines to ideate, plan, build, refine and implement new experimental + computational platforms to enable small molecule drug discovery with unprecedented scope, scale and quality
What you Bring…
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Extensive practical knowledge and expertise in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery with a distinguished record of accomplishment
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Academic training in organic or medicinal chemistry (Ph.D. preferred) with 10+ years of drug discovery experience spanning target ID to candidate nomination
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Skill and facility applying current structure- and/or ligand-based computational design approaches; curiosity and excitement to apply new, technology-driven approaches to transform the drug discovery paradigm
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Demonstrated ability to lead, work effectively and collaboratively within multifunctional matrix projects teams and to manage work at contract research organizations
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Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong commitment and attention to detail
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Thoughtful decisiveness; comfort and productivity in dynamic and creative environments
More on Valo
Valo Health, LLC (“Valo”) is a technology company built to transform the drug discovery and development process using human-centric data and artificial intelligence-driven computation. As a digitally native company, Valo aims to fully integrate human-centric data across the entire drug development life cycle into a single unified architecture, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of life-changing drugs while simultaneously reducing costs, time, and failure rates. The company’s Opal Computational Platform™ is an integrated set of capabilities designed to transform data into valuable insights that may accelerate discoveries and enable Valo to advance a robust pipeline of programs across cardiovascular metabolic renal, oncology, and neurodegenerative diseases. Founded by Flagship Pioneering and headquartered in Boston, MA, Valo also has offices in Lexington, MA, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit www.valohealth.com.
