Overview

As a global company with operations across Asia, Europe, and North America, WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable global pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to advance discoveries and deliver groundbreaking treatments to patients. Through its unique business models, WuXi AppTec’s integrated, end-to-end services include chemistry drug CRDMO (Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization), biology discovery, preclinical testing and clinical research services, cell and gene therapies CTDMO (Contract Testing, Development and Manufacturing Organization), helping customers improve the productivity of advancing healthcare products through cost-effective and efficient solutions.

Job Location: Shanghai, China

Responsibilities

• Develop and apply computational approaches for both internal and external needs related with hit discovery
• Engage and influence interdisciplinary project teams for decision-making from library design to hit triaging.
• Support integration of new technologies to enhance scientific excellence and productivity including the expansion of DEL informatics
• Collaborate with MedChem team for direction setting from early to late-stage

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in computational chemistry, computational biology or related field
• 5 years of academic or industrial experience in applying computational methods to drug discovery
• Hands-on experience in at least one of the approaches including: Structure-based Drug Design, Virtual Screening, Hit and Lead Finding
• Experience in team management and collaboration
• Familiar with open-source cheminformatics toolboxes including RDKit and Open Babel