Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Molecular & Investigative Toxicology

Merck & Co., Inc.

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Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

Be a part of the legacy: MRL Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program.

The Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program aims to be a best-in-industry program for industrial postdoctoral researchers, designed to provide you with an academic focus in a commercial environment. With the resources, reach, and expertise of a large pharmaceutical company, postdoctoral researchers will be positioned to excel in an institution committed to breakthrough innovation in research and discovery.

Position Overview:

As a postdoctoral fellow in Molecular & Investigative Toxicology you will work with a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team of scientists to apply understanding of fundamental mechanisms to solve drug development problems relating to drug hypersensitivity reactions. You will conceive, design, plan and implement a research program that will enable the creation of a preclinical testing strategy that can identify the immune mediated hypersensitivity potential of new drug candidates.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Monitor, evaluate and leverage new technologies that enable preclinical de-risking of compounds.
• Investigate mechanisms of immune related safety concerns raised in in vivo models toxicology studies to help inform on relevance to humans.
• Lead the development and implementation of assays and protocols that enable de-risking of human safety findings that surface in human clinical trials and are not seen in conventional in vivo model studies.
• Publish as primary or lead author in high quality, peer-reviewed, scientific journals.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• PhD in Immunology, Immunotoxicology or related life science.

Required Experience and Skills:

• PhD, or met all the requirements for a PhD by June 2015, with 3 years or less postdoctoral experience
• Experience in assay development and innovation
• Ability to design experiments, interpret and track results, and utilize this information to enable further development of a project
• Superior written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to work effectively in a team environment

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to publish in peer-reviewed journals
• Expertise with any of the following: ELISPOT, ELISA, Flow cytometry, Lymphocyte tissue culture models, proteomics

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.

Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V – proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations. Former Military, Transitioning Service Members, National Guard & Reserves - We value your past and present service.

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