Do you want responsibility, trust, learning opportunities and great colleagues?

If your experience and professional interest is founded in drug discovery, development of preclinical models and coordination, this job could be your perfect match. 

When joining Gubra you will be part of a successful and growing biotech company. You can look forward to being trusted with major responsibility in a role where your personal efforts make a visible and tangible difference. You will experience short decision paths, and if you have a good idea, you can bring it forward. You will also have very good learning opportunities as a result of our highly cross-organizational ways of working. 

And not to forget. You will have the best imaginable colleagues that are always ready to help – 5 out of 5 is our standard average score when we measure workplace relationships.
 

Study Director, Principal Investigator and Coordinator of multiple tasks related to preclinical studies

As Principal Scientist, your job will be to conduct in vivo studies, mainly in the role as principal investigator, for our highly specialized preclinical models. Depending on your background, your primary focus will be within obesity, healthy weight loss and/or diabetes. You will, primarily, work in CRO projects as these are the foundation of the preclinical work in Gubra’s Pharmacology Research area. 

No matter your scientific focus, the main part of your job will be centred on study management and coordination. As such, hands-on lab work is limited in the position. However, at Gubra one of our core values is to join forces and we may rely on you to help colleagues if needed.

With onset in your knowledge and scientific field, your primary tasks will be to: 

• Conduct studies for our customers and Gubra’s discovery projects
• Monitor and interpret research data with reporting to customers and follow-up discussions
• Manage research studies of varying size and complexity, typically 5-10 studies simultaneously
• Coordinate activities concerning model development and validation of endpoints
• Take active part in Gubra’s innovation agenda in relevant areas
   

PhD degree, experience from life science and a motivation for coordination

This role is a match if you like taking responsibility, and you have the ability to act swiftly when needed. It comes naturally to you to identify and prioritize tasks, and you take responsibility for driving the tasks to completion. You enjoy working in an environment in constant development and can cope with ongoing changes of priorities. 

Since coordination is key in this job, you thrive in a very outgoing role where you collaborate with many different people on a daily basis. Added to this, you know how to motivate people around you with your positive belief that there always is a solution at hand to any challenge. Additionally, your resume comprises: 

• A PhD degree and min. 3 years of experience from life science, preferably from biotech or pharma 
• Experience with drug discovery and development of preclinical models for evaluation of new therapeutics
• Scientific expertise within metabolic diseases, preferentially within obesity, healthy weight loss or diabetes
• Experience with coordination of research studies and great motivation for this part of the job
   

Pharmacology Research – your new department 

In Pharmacology Research we are approx. 85 dedicated colleagues including Animal Care Technicians, Laboratory Technicians and app. 30 Scientists. Our ways of working are highly cross-functional. ‘Siloes’ is simply not a word found in the Gubra dictionary.

Our overall focus is a broad catalogue of rodent models. Currently, the main part of our studies is related to metabolic and fibrotic diseases, i.e. obesity, MASH/MAFLD, diabetes and diabetic complications, nephropathies and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
 

Contact and application

Please apply at our website using the ”Apply” button. The deadline is September 22nd, 2024. The applications will be reviewed as they come in.

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact Department Manager, Matilda Degn Vinther at +45 60 61 00 84 or Department Manager, Ida Rune Sørensen at +45 40 38 58 05 

We are looking forward to receiving your application. 
 

About Gubra 

Gubra is an ambitious contract research organisation (CRO) and biotech company striving for excellence at all levels. We insist on doing things efficiently – and often differently - to reach the results we aim for. Our vision is to become leaders in the fight for a more sustainable and healthier world. We do that by facilitating the discovery of new medicine, and by acting and inspiring others to fight the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises. 

Gubra’s activities are focused on the early stages of drug development and are organised in two highly synergistic business areas: CRO Services and Discovery & Partnerships (D&P). We generate our revenue by performing research for life science companies as well as by partnering projects from our discovery and development pipeline. 

Our therapeutic focus is within metabolic and fibrotic diseases, and we specialize in in vivo pharmacology, ex vivo assays, drug profiling, histology, stereology and whole brain and organ imaging. In addition, we offer a full palette of advanced transcriptomics. Our ML/AI-driven peptide drug discovery platform streaMLine enables us to rapidly develop a peptide hit into a non-clinical candidate ready for development. Through a constant focus on high quality, scientific excellence, speed, and solid teamwork we have established ourselves as a highly professional and competent partner in the market. 

People are our greatest asset, and our team consists of +250 employees all located in Hørsholm, Denmark. The mix of people from different cultures and educational backgrounds combined with our entrepreneurial mindset have greatly impacted our working environment, which is characterized by entrepreneurial drive, scientific curiosity, and teamwork – we join forces!