Computational Chemist

Computational ChemistCK Group are working in partnership with Nxera Pharma to recruit a Senior Scientist/Lead Scientist - Computational Chemistry, to join their Computational Chemistry team.
Applications are welcomed from candidates with a PhD plus at least 3 years experience in computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or a related discipline.
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 excellent opportunity for a Computational Chemist to grow the Computer-Aided Drug Design and Cheminformatics/AI capabilities at Nxera Pharma.
This is an exciting position, leveraging the NxWave platform to support structure-based computational design in drug discovery projects and develop novel methodology/workflows for wider utility.
Responsibilities will include: Work with key stakeholders across other disciplines in Nxera Discovery to define and execute computational approaches that support delivery of projects across the portfolio.