Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) - La Jolla, California

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: San Diego
Posted on: February 2, 2025

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) is recruiting for a Principal Scientist, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD, Computational Chemistry), to join our In Silico Drug Discovery team located in San Diego, California (La Jolla area).At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.For more than 130 years, diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) has been a part of our cultural fabric at Johnson & Johnson and woven into how we do business every day. Rooted in Our Credo, the values of DEI fuel our pursuit to create a healthier, more equitable world. Our diverse workforce and culture of belonging accelerate innovation to solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.We know that the success of our business - and our ability to deliver meaningful solutions - depends on how well we understand and meet the diverse needs of the communities we serve. Which is why we foster a culture of inclusion and belonging where all perspectives, abilities and experiences are valued and our people can reach their potential.At Johnson & Johnson, we all belong.The In Silico Discovery Unit is a computational discovery team embedded in the Therapeutics Discovery organization, a modality agnostic discovery engine within JJIM responsible for driving all aspects of computational drug discovery across J&J's Therapeutic Areas. The In Silico Discovery (ISD) group is seeking excellent scientists to bring their expertise to exciting and novel areas of computational drug design.Key Responsibilities Include:

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• Design therapeutic molecules and calculate their properties using state-of-the-art methodologies integrating chemical, biological and structural data, cheminformatics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques
• Serve as a scientific expert in multi-disciplinary discovery project teams that include synthetic chemists, structural biologists, and other discovery scientists, by providing key expertise in the use and interpretation of data related to drug targets and their ligands
• Collaborate within Janssen and with external academic and industrial partners to develop new computational technologies to address key questions in drug discovery
• Publish results in peer reviewed journals and present at scientific meetings
• Mentor junior scientists, fostering their development as expert computational drug hunters\r\r

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