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Neuroscience Biology Lead Boston, MA - Boston Massachusetts
Company: manifold.bio Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posted On: 04/29/2024
Position Manifold Bio is seeking an enthusiastic, highly creative neuroscience lead to expand our drug discovery efforts. You will work closely with the founders and R&D leadership to refine our neuroscience strategy and advance pipeline programs treating diseases of the CNS. The ideal candidate will have a strong scientific background and experience leading biologics programs in one or more CNS therapeutic areas (neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, neuro-oncology, etc). This is a unique opportunity to work with world-class technologists innovating in cutting edge molecular biology and compute approaches to realize the potential of a novel protein engineering platform. You will lead early discovery projects that integrate our novel platform capabilities with both internal and external R&D resources. Together, we'll continue to fundamentally change the current paradigm of drug development through the original vision of massively increasing the throughput of testing protein therapeutics. Responsibilities - Guide company level neuroscience / CNS strategy
- Evaluate new project/target opportunities and propose POC experiments
- Leverage external resources and coordinate internal team members to lead projects from discovery to candidate selection
- Coordinate with protein engineering on binder discovery and/or evaluate in-licensing opportunities, considering tradeoffs among target presentation and relation to disease biology
- Design screening funnels that integrate our novel mDesign in vivo biologics design platform
- Analyze and interpret data to enable decision making
- Design development plans to early human PoC, including specifying DC nomination criteria
Required Qualifications - Biology Ph.D. or equivalent experience
- Experience designing screening funnels leveraging both in vitro and in vivo assays with a focus on biologics ( 5-10 for Dir. level; 10+ for VP level)
- Previous experience as a team lead or co-lead in an industry setting
- Experience with hybrid drug discovery models blending external and internal R&D workflows
- Highly independent and proactive, excellent communication and cross-functional team coordination skills
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with molecules that enhance BBB transcytosis (e.g. 'shuttles')
- Experience and interest in assay development (in vitro/ex vivo/in vivo)
- Experience with preclinical development and clinical trial planning
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