Senior/Lead Scientist, Translational Biology Immunology

CK Group are working in partnership with Nxera Pharma to recruit a Senior or Lead Scientist, Immunology, Translational Medicine, to join their Translational Biology Immunology and Metabolism group. The ideal candidate will have immunology expertise in inflammatory or autoimmune disease, and expertise in planning and executing preclinical target validation, and translational studies to support project deliverables.Location: Granta Park, Cambridge.About the company: Nxera Pharma (formerly Sosei Heptares) is a technology powered biopharma company, in pursuit of new speciality medicines to improve the lives of patients with unmet needs globally. Their pipeline is focused on addressing major unmet needs in some of the fastest-growing areas of medicine across CNS, GI and immunology, metabolic disorders and rare diseases, and leverages the power of their unique and industry leading GPCR-targeted structure-based drug discovery NxWave platform to provide a sustainable source of best- or first-in-class candidates. In Cambridge UK, Nxera have built outstanding capabilities across their platform, discovery and translational medicine teams, to advance multiple programs from pre-clinical through to early clinical development.About the role: This is an exciting opportunity to work across diverse functional groups within Nxera Pharma and with external industrial and academic collaborators. The Translational Biology Team is a multidisciplinary team focused on understanding the mechanisms ..... full job details .....