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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Biological Research

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description: About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Neuroscience is recruiting for a Scientist Biological Research, located in Beerse, Belgium. This can be suitable for a junior profile with some earlier practical lab experience, like a practical internship.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, the candidate will perform high quality in vivo studies in rodents in line with the larger project requirements, using established and novel technologies, including systemic dosing, behavioural evaluations and stereotactic surgery on rodents. The candidate will do an in-depth analysis and interpretation of the data and records and reports of it accurately and timely to the coordinator and project team leads.

The candidate needs to have considerable experience in working with small laboratory animals and surgical techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducting assigned scientific experiments and data analyses with supervisor’s assistance to support preclinical and development programs or areas of biological exploration in compliance with Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and animal welfare.

• Spends 90% of time on experiments and other lab-based activities.

• Drafting technical reports and communication of the results to supervisor and the team in a timely manner.

• Provides input and troubleshoots problems with scientific experiments, analyses, and tasks in assigned areas.

• Perform literature searches on and present data at team meetings with a focus on model development and new techniques.

• Assists in developing recommendations for improving standard procedures.

• Over time take on general lab responsibilities

• Over time, independently reworks study design and/or analyses based on interpretations and integration of emerging literature.

• Contribute to working groups by testing standard procedures to provide recommendations for improvements.

• Supports the work of project members to accomplish team objectives on time and within budget.

• Places orders in purchasing systems or maintains supplies to proactively support projects.

• Understands and applies Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives in day-to-day interactions with team.

Qualifications

Education:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in biomedical sciences or related area.

• Minimal FELASA-B certification or foreign equivalent is required.

Experience and Skills:

• Hands on experience with handling of laboratory animals and surgical procedures is required.

• Engaged team worker with a strong commitment to lab work with quality as the highest priority.

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• with the ability to interact effectively with people, putting the goals of the larger team first. Communication is key in this process.

• Motivated to learn and dare to challenge the status quo in terms of applying 3R principles.

• Demonstrates creativity and novel approaches to solving technical or scientific problems.

• Able to effectively record, evaluate and report scientific data and concepts.

• Detail-oriented, with excellent record-keeping skills according to established procedures.

• Good organizational skills, attention to detail, flexibility, and a proven ability to work collaboratively in a fast paced, highly matrixed environment is essential.

Preferred:

• Experience in an academic or industrial research environment is a plus.

• Background in neuroscience and scientific advances in the field is a plus.

Required Skills: Preferred Skills:

Animal Testing, Laboratory Sciences