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This newly created role offers a unique opportunity to play a central scientific role in shaping discovery strategies, advancing novel target concepts, and influencing future pipeline direction in a highly collaborative and innovation-driven research environment.
Job Responsibility
Drive and shape discovery campaigns aligned with Gubra’s strategic focus areas
Provide scientific leadership across discovery activities and multidisciplinary project teams
Lead and coordinate cross-functional discovery efforts to advance novel therapeutic concepts
Identify and mature novel therapeutic targets and concepts from early hypothesis to pipeline opportunities
Integrate disease biology, translational insights, and competitive intelligence to strengthen target rationale and value propositions
Provide clear scientific recommendations to support data-driven portfolio decisions
Contribute to the evaluation of external innovation opportunities, partnerships, and business development activities
Collaborate closely across discovery, translational, and computational disciplines
Mentor and support colleagues across the organization
Requirements
PhD in life sciences
significant experience from biotech and/or pharmaceutical drug discovery environments
7+ years of experience within target identification and early drug discovery
proven expertise within one or more relevant disease areas, such as cardiometabolic disease, inflammation & immunology, and/or age-related diseases such as sarcopenia
strong track record of progressing discovery concepts through multidisciplinary collaboration
scientifically curious and strategically minded, with the ability to connect biology to therapeutic opportunity
thrive in collaborative environments and communicate effectively across scientific disciplines
solid analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Nice to have
Experience leveraging human data and translational approaches in target discovery