66 jobs for “Biotech Research Scientist”
Alloy Therapeutics UK Ltd Cambridge £45,000 – £50,000 pa
Design and build large-scale synthetic gene loci and transgenic platforms for antibody discovery, using CRISPR/Cas9, RMCE and site-specific integrases. Hands-on molecular biology including PCR, NGS, plasmid construction and flow-cytometric immunophenotyping, within a small multidisciplinary team working from dry-lab design to wet-lab validation.
CureAge Therapeutics London
Lead the computationally guided design of a lipid nanoparticle delivery platform, applying chemical and biophysical principles to optimise LNP composition and formulation. Use AI-enabled chemistry, cheminformatics, predictive models and molecular modelling to prioritise formulation components, working closely with the experimental team and founding team in a small start-up.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
Designs and develops software and APIs for the UniProt protein data services and website, serving a global scientific community. Also handles design, maintenance and monitoring of the website's cloud infrastructure, with a focus on scalability, well-tested code and distributed big-data processing. Works in a dynamic interdisciplinary team of engineers and bioinformaticians alongside biologists.
EMBL-EBI Saffron Walden £3,452 pm
Develops the user-facing Europe PMC service, building fast, accessible interfaces for searching and navigating a corpus of over 47 million biomedical publications. Works with UX, product, back-end and data science colleagues to create reusable components, integrate REST APIs and JSON data, and improve performance, accessibility and maintainability within an Agile team.
GSK USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence £174,750 – £291,250 pa
Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, accountable for at least one asset or disease area and its Global Epidemiology Plan. Designs and oversees complex observational studies using claims, EHR and registry data, advises clinical, safety and regulatory matrix teams, and manages external partnerships and scientific dissemination. Also mentors junior epidemiologists and represents the company with regulators and at international conferences.
GSK Boston, United States £174,750 – £320,375 pa
Leads respiratory epidemiology and real-world evidence programs that inform vaccine development, designing and overseeing complex studies on disease burden, treatment patterns and safety. Partners across clinical development, safety, regulatory and health outcomes, manages external collaborations, and mentors junior scientists. Hybrid role requiring on-site presence at least two days per week.
Altos Labs Cambridge
Hands-on laboratory role supporting a state-of-the-art multiomics facility, running Illumina and Nanopore sequencing, bulk RNA/DNA library prep and single-cell workflows such as 10x Genomics and Parse Bio. The post also covers lab automation, instrument maintenance, SOPs, purchasing and advising researchers on experimental design within a collaborative core-facility team.
Basecamp Research London
Serves as connective tissue across Global Research, Data Science and Science teams, coordinating external sequencing vendors, research partnerships and publication timelines. Owns cross-functional process improvement and tooling oversight, ensuring training data stays synchronised with frontier AI model releases. Reports to the VP of Global Research with dotted-line alignment to the Founding TPM.
Isomorphic Labs Cambridge, United States
Lead DMPK strategy across drug discovery projects, designing screening cascades and mechanistic experiments while integrating DMPK, PD and toxicology data for dose and safety predictions. Work closely with AI/ML platform teams to optimise computational ADME models and author regulatory sections, in a hybrid Cambridge, MA role.
Isomorphic Labs London
Lead formulation strategy for small molecules across drug discovery and preclinical development, designing technologies such as solid dispersions and co-crystals to improve solubility, stability and manufacturability. Work within an interdisciplinary team alongside AI/ML drug design platform groups, managing external CRO resources and authoring regulatory submissions.
Relation Therapeutics London
Contributes to the design and execution of cellular and biochemical assays, including arrayed CRISPR perturbation screens in established cell models, and maintains primary and immortalised mammalian cell lines with sample tracking and QC. Runs phenotypic readouts such as flow cytometry, RT-qPCR and ELISA, performs data analysis and quality assurance, and reports outcomes to cross-functional project teams. Based in London wet labs within a matrixed TechBio environment.
Basecamp Research London
Owns the peptide and protein platform as a commercial product, spanning market and competitive intelligence, target product profiles, roadmap and packaging decisions, and go-to-market positioning. Sits between model, data and science teams and business development, and is accountable for partner engagement and revenue generation. Requires deep peptide therapeutics and licensing deal expertise.
Mytos London
Contribute across a full-stack cloud product and IoT devices that interface with hardware automating human cell production. Work spans TypeScript, React, GraphQL frontends and Node.js/PostgreSQL backends, with cross-disciplinary collaboration alongside hardware engineers and biologists, including testing on prototype machines in the lab.
Mytos London
Work within the hardware team to develop mechanical solutions for automated cell production systems, refining designs and sourcing parts. Assemble, test and validate complex devices, applying user-centred design and collaborating across disciplines. Based in the lab, with exposure to lab automation, medical devices and robotics.
Platform Recruitment Cambridge £35,000 – £45,000 pa
Develops FPGA and embedded firmware for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing systems used in biomedical research products. Writes VHDL for FPGA design and C for low-level hardware control, integrating with interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, USB and Ethernet. Works alongside hardware and software engineers across the full product lifecycle, with real project ownership and a progression route to senior roles.
Helical London
Own the full post-training lifecycle for biological foundation models, from alignment strategy to production deployment. Design pipelines that adapt general-purpose models to therapeutic contexts, build validation frameworks linking model improvements to biological ground truth, and run experiments end-to-end on distributed GPU infrastructure. Collaborate with ML infrastructure and biology teams and contribute to open-source tooling.
Novartis London
Leads end-to-end translational strategy for neurodegenerative and neuromuscular programs, bridging preclinical research to Phase 1–2 clinical development. Accountable for biomarker strategy, clinical endpoint selection and early-phase trial design, and serves as the Translational Medicine representative within global cross-functional project and clinical trial teams.
