Biotechnology Jobs

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Curate molecular interaction and macromolecular complex data from scientific literature and user depositions into the IntAct and Complex Portal knowledgebases. Work with bioinformaticians and developers to build curation workflows combining expert manual curation with AI-assisted literature mining, using ontologies and community data standards.

IntAct · Complex Portal · Gene Ontology +2

• Saffron Walden
• Hybrid
• £3,452 – £3,861 pm
• Contract

Develops and maintains Python and Java data pipelines that generate ChEMBL releases, plus other chemogenomics services like SureChEMBL, UniChem and ChEBI. Involves database administration, integrating external chemical databases, and collaborating with interdisciplinary scientists and engineers on curation and quality issues.

RDKit · Open Babel · InChI +7

• Manchester
• Mid-level

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring and close-out visits for clinical trials, ensuring GCP compliance, patient safety and data integrity. Builds relationships with investigators, resolves data queries, mentors junior staff and travels up to 40-60% within the region. Embedded in a sponsor-dedicated functional service partnership model.

Investigator Site Files · Trial Master Files

• Bath
• Mid-level

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring and close-out visits for a CRO embedded within pharmaceutical sponsor teams, ensuring GCP compliance, patient safety and data integrity. Manages site relationships, recruitment strategies, TMF/ISF documentation and risk escalation, with mentoring of junior staff and up to 40-60% regional travel.

Investigator Site Files · Trial Master Files

• Harrow
• Remote
• Lead · manages people

Acts as functional lead on the core project team, driving site identification and country selection for clinical trials from award onwards. Designs protocol-specific site questionnaires, leads local teams through surveys, models enrolment scenarios, and presents data-driven strategies to sponsors. Also serves as SME for feasibility systems and may lead stand-alone feasibility studies.

• Oxford
• On-site
• Permanent

Supports the design, construction and commissioning of new plant science laboratories, greenhouses and growth facilities. Coordinates project plans, equipment scoping and procurement, supplier quotations, deliveries and installation, and maintains readiness checklists and stakeholder communications across research and technical teams.

• Guildford
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role applying informatics, data science, machine learning and AI to animal health and welfare, within the vHive and Health and Biomedical Informatics Group. Involves in-silico drug repurposing, biomarker discovery from proteomics and transcriptomics, knowledge representation and stakeholder data analysis, in collaboration with industry partner Zoetis and other institutions.

R · Python

• Oxford
• On-site
• Junior
• Permanent

Hands-on bench role executing microbial culture, identification, biobanking and broth microdilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing under BSL-2 conditions, compliant with EUCAST/CLSI guidelines. Works within a highly automated reference laboratory integrating robotics and data systems, with scope to help design and optimise high-throughput workflows alongside microbiologists, genomics scientists and automation engineers.

MALDI-TOF · Oracle · Long-Read Sequencing +1

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior · manages people

Experienced medicinal chemists lead portfolio drug discovery projects from initiation to clinical candidate selection, working as Project Lead or Medicinal Chemistry Lead. They partner closely with ML scientists to refine the AI drug design platform, manage CRO resources, and may line-manage teams of 2-4 chemists.

AlphaFold

• Cambridge, United States
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Lead

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.

Python · R

• Cambridge
• £37,694 – £46,049 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Conducts molecular virology research on viral cross-species transmission, using cell culture, molecular cloning, viral reverse genetics and functional infection assays. Plans and analyses experiments, maintains records and contributes to manuscripts within a collaborative team at CITIID. Fixed-term for one year in the first instance.

Viral Reverse Genetics · Small Animal Models

• Coventry
• On-site
• £36,320 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role in the Clostridial Cell Biology Group, leading molecular biology and experimental evolution work on vancomycin resistance in Clostridioides difficile. Collaborates with biochemists, bioinformaticians and clinical microbiologists across Warwick, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds, and involves supervising PhD and masters students.

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

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.

OpenTargets · helical-package · GPU

• York
• Hybrid
• £38,448 – £46,970 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead an ARIA-funded project characterising engineered lipid nanoparticles that target lung-mediated immune regulation, with a focus on macrophage-driven innate immune mechanisms. Work spans mouse models, flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy within a multi-university consortium, based at York with some remote working.

Flow Cytometry · Fluorescence Microscopy

• United Kingdom
• Remote
• Senior

Acts as independent Principal Investigator overseeing qualitative in-trial research studies, from design through delivery, for pharmaceutical clients. Applies methods like interviews and surveys to capture patient experience data, manages project budgets and timelines, and contributes to proposals and client development. Requires CAQDAS expertise and strong scientific writing.

Atlas.ti · NVivo · MAXQDA +1