Biotechnology Jobs

• Cambridge
• Senior

Leads stem cell-focused drug discovery projects, designing and optimising human iPSC-derived models, 2D/3D assays and disease models, and applying New Approach Methodologies to client programmes. Partners directly with pharmaceutical and biotech clients, presenting data and shaping project strategy, while mentoring colleagues and contributing to proposals and capability development.

Organoids · Spheroid systems · Co-culture models +4

• Livingston
• Entry level

Performs and documents analytical procedures in a regulated laboratory, running routine data analysis and checking results against tolerances. Prepares data for LIMS upload, supports quality investigations and deviations, and calibrates and maintains lab equipment. Also trains other lab personnel and escalates unusual results to senior staff.

LIMS

• Stevenage
• Director

Provides scientific and medical expertise at study level across early- and late-phase hepatology assets, leading protocol and study document development, serving as medical monitor for Phase 1-4 trials, and interpreting efficacy, safety and biomarker data. Works within cross-functional global study teams and mentors less experienced clinical scientists without formal line management.

• UK - Hertfordshire - Ware RD
• Director

Provides scientific and medical expertise at study level across early- and late-phase hepatology assets, leading protocol and study document development, serving as medical monitor for Phase 1–4 trials, and interpreting efficacy, safety and biomarker data. Works within cross-functional global study teams and the Clinical Matrix Team, with informal coaching of less experienced clinical scientists and no formal line management.

• Oxford
• On-site
• Senior

Leads the creation, review and oversight of investigator site budgets and grants across Phase I–IV clinical trials, using Grants Manager/GrantPlan and FMV benchmarking. Manages CRO site budget and CTA negotiations, scenario planning and site activation timelines, with exposure to Generative AI tools for analytics.

Grants Manager · GrantPlan · MS Office +1

• United Kingdom
• Remote
• Entry level

Supports clinical trial site management remotely, liaising with CRAs and study teams on site preparedness, document collection, vendor trackers and remote monitoring tasks. Handles essential documents, site payments, reconciliations and centralized monitoring reviews in line with SOPs and ICH GCP. Suits an early-career life sciences graduate seeking a UK-based remote clinical research role.

EMR · EHR · CTMS +2

• Oxford
• On-site
• Lead
• Permanent

Leads vector design strategy for gene edited and transgenic crop programmes, covering expression cassette architecture, guide RNA modules, donor templates and multiplex editing configurations. Owns the design-to-vector-release process, including construct QC, sequence management, vendor workflows and handover packages for transformation teams. Builds an industrial-grade vector design capability for corn, wheat and other strategic species, with SOPs, LIMS/ELN tracking and mentoring of scientists.

ELN · LIMS

• 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

• Norwich
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Investigates whether pregnancy UTI risk relates to E. coli types, collecting urine and faecal samples with hospital clinicians. Uses long-read genome and metagenome sequencing, 18S qPCR and cytokine quantification, comparing patient gut, public and food/environmental genomes in a One Health framework.

Long-read Sequencing · 18S qPCR

• 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.

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

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.

CRISPR · Flow Cytometry · RT-qPCR +3

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Applies genetic clustering to severe mental illness traits to find biologically distinct risk components affecting obesity and type 2 diabetes, using GWAS data and population biobanks. Integrates single-cell multiomic datasets to map risk pathways to neuronal and glial cell types, with CRISPR-based functional work. Multidisciplinary training in statistical genetics, bioinformatics and functional genomics.

CRISPR · GWAS

• Norwich
• On-site
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Investigates the repeated evolution of mimicry in Neotropical Corydoradinae catfishes using comparative and population genomics. The project analyses chromosome-level genomes, RNA-seq and whole-genome resequencing data to find signatures of divergent selection, selective sweeps and rapid pigmentation gene evolution, with training in bioinformatics, UNIX/Linux, HPC and R/Python.

RNA-seq · Whole-Genome Resequencing

• London
• Permanent

Builds and scales generative and predictive models of cellular behaviour, acting as the bridge between ML theory and implementation. Day to day involves optimising large neural networks, distributed multi-GPU training, profiling GPU workloads, and productionising research code for multi-modal biological data.

PyTorch · CUDA · Triton +3

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Investigates the molecular mechanisms of liver dysfunction in childhood POLG-related mitochondrial disease, focusing on Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome. Uses quantitative untargeted proteomics and immunohistochemistry on donated post-mortem liver tissue, and generates hepatic organoids from patient-derived iPSCs for disease modelling and therapeutic screening. Based in the Newcastle Mitochondrial Research Group with a placement at the University of St Andrews.

iPSCs