in vivo Research Scientist, Comparative

Job Description SummaryResearch Collaborations (RC) is seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist to support, coordinate, and execute hands on in vivo research across a diverse project portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible scientific impact through advanced in vivo experimentation, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to generate high quality datasets supporting programs across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities.

Job Description

Internal Job Title:Research Scientist I/II
Position Location: onsite, Cambridge, MA #LI-onsite

This is a full-time onsite role with flexible scheduling aligned to study needs, including potential coverage across a Monday-Sunday workweek. Some weekend on-call responsibilities and Biomedical Research holiday coverage may be required.

About the Role:

Research Collaborations (RC) is a centralized core unit within In Vivo Science & Technology (IST), Comparative Medicine (CM). RC delivers best in class in vivo science to enable the discovery and development of transformative medicines. We partner closely with Biomedical Research (BR) to design and execute high impact in vivo studies, develop innovative disease relevant models, and advance platform capabilities that accelerate drug discovery and development across all modalities and disease areas.

With a strong foundation in animal welfare and 3Rs principles, RC brings deep scientific expertise and operational excellence to collaborative, disease focused research. Our scientists operate at the interface of experimental pharmacology and translational science, partnering with BR Disease and Functional Areas to deliver robust, ethical, and innovative in vivo solutions that support patients with unmet medical needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Perform stateoftheart invivo experimentation to the highest ethical, technical, and scientific standards, independently and in collaboration with project teams.

Demonstrate proficiency in a broad range of invivo technical skills, including compound administration (PO, IV, SC, IP), blood sampling via multiple routes, tissue collection, clinical observations, and routine and specialized necropsy techniques in applicable inhouse species (mouse, rat).

Execute advanced necropsy and tissueprocessing methodologies, including targeted organ dissection, perfusionassisted tissue collection, and sample preservation for histopathology, molecular, and biomarker analyses, in coordination with pathology and translational partners.

Apply experience with basic invivo surgical procedures (e.g., minor implantations, catheter placement, specialized sampling), where... For full info follow application link.

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