Research Lead / Senior Scientist (Dmpk), London

Isomorphic Labs; England; Híbrido; GBP 110.000 - 150.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Hybrid working 3 days in office

Commitment to equal opportunities

Resumo da vaga

Isomorphic Labs is seeking a DMPK Lead to drive the DMPK strategy across drug discovery projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality clinical candidates. You will integrate pharmacokinetics, translational research, and regulatory considerations, leveraging AI-enabled models and state-of-the-art data integrations to inform decision making.

The role requires extensive experience in DMPK across multiple modalities, collaboration with preclinical and clinical teams, and

Qualificações

• PhD in Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacy, Chemistry or related field.
• 8+ years of professional DMPK lead experience with a track record of delivering high-quality candidates.
• Experience supporting DMPK across multiple modalities and collaboration with preclinical/clinical teams.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement stage-appropriate DMPK strategies with AI-first approach.
• Design screening cascades and mechanistic experiments to support project progression.
• Integrate DMPK, PD and toxicology data to inform dose and safety windows.

Conhecimentos

DMPK leadership

Cross-functional leadership

PKPD expertise

Regulatory documentation

Strategic thinking

Communication

Data integration

Formação

PhD in Pharmaceutical Science/Pharmacy/Chemistry

Ferramentas

R

Python

KNIME

Descrição da vaga

Isomorphic Labs

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

About Isomorphic Labs

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities.

Your impact

At Isomorphic Labs, DMPK Leads drive the DMPK strategy of drug discovery projects to deliver high quality clinical candidates whilst using and contributing to the optimisation of state-of-the‑art computational and AI ADME models.

As part of the Drug Design and Medical Research team and through close collaboration with the Technology teams, you will be supporting the business alongside world leading AI/ML Drug Design Platform teams.

What you will do

• Design and implement stage-appropriate DMPK strategies with AI-first approach, integrating quantitative pharmacology and overall project strategies.
• Design screening cascade and mechanistic experiments to support project progression in a data-driven manner.
• Integrate DMPK, PD and toxicological data to extract decision‑making information, including dose and safety window predictions.
• Define Quantitative Pharmacology strategy in collaboration with Pharmacology Leads.
• Optimise the use of Iso's datasets to address fundamental DMPK questions and advance the field.
• Optimise molecule design based on physico-chemistry and biotransformation knowledge in collaboration with Chemistry Leads.
• Maintain knowledge of state-of-the‑art technologies and methods to increase confidence in human PK prediction.
• Author DMPK sections of regulatory documents.
• Embrace and champion a culture of inclusion and continuous professional development.

Skills and qualifications

Essential

• PhD in either Pharmaceutical Science, Pharmacy, Chemistry, or another relevant subject.
• 8+ years' professional experience as a DMPK Lead, solving DMPK-related problems in drug discovery with a track record of working collaboratively to deliver high quality candidates.
• Experience in supporting DMPK across multiple modalities.
• Comprehensive understanding of drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, PKPD principles, and translational research.
• Practical experience developing DMPK and quantitative pharmacology packages to support early clinical development, including authoring and reviewing regulatory documents, ideally in oncology or immunology.
• Experience of partnering closely with Preclinical and Clinical teams.
• Demonstrated cross‑functional leadership and exceptional interpersonal, communication, and collaborative problem‑solving capabilities.
• In depth knowledge of biotransformation.
• Experience of utilising and applying NAMs to further project understanding.
• Strategic thinker with strong communication skills, capable of working across multiple disciplines.

Nice to have

• Advanced knowledge of PKPD modelling.
• Good understanding of machine learning techniques.
• Familiarity with R, Python and KNIME.

Hybrid working

This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you're in).

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law.