Staff Openings
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Business Development Director- Healthcare and Entrepreneurship
Business Development and Technology TranslationWe are seeking a talented, entrepreneurial professional to join our community as a Business Development Director. This individual will work closely with the Institute’s Executive Team to oversee strategy development and execution for technology translation in defined variety of different areas including healthcare and sustainability. Reporting to the Wyss Technology Translation Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing Wyss internal entrepreneurs and will act as a central contact to industry, key opinion leaders, and venture capital. The Director of Business Development will work closely with Institute Faculty and researchers to prioritize the Institute’s technology portfolio and support inventors and start-up founders in important business development activities. The candidate will work on both early and later-stage technologies, and will help inform business and technology development decisions through outreach to key opinion leaders, end-users, government funding agencies and commercial collaborators. [50129BR]
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Philanthropic Alliance Analyst
Administration and OperationsWe are seeking a talented energetic professional to join our business development community as Philanthropic Alliances Analyst. The Analyst will work closely with the Executive Leadership, the Business Development Team and Wyss Faculty with the goal to identify a wide range of prospects who share a common mission with the Wyss Institute. In this position, the successful applicant will conduct timely strategic research in support of alliance development with venture firms, foundations, corporations or individuals who have strong interests that are aligned with important Wyss Initiatives in the area of healthcare and global sustainability. The Analyst effectively identifies interested parties for potential alliances with the Wyss Institute, establishes contacts, facilitates discussions, and acts as an internal and external ambassador for the Institute. [50197BR]
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Research Assistant III- Blood Brain Barrier
Research and Technology DevelopmentWe are seeking an enthusiastic individual to work as a Research Assistant in the Bioinspired Therapeutics & Diagnostics platform. The successful candidate will significantly contribute to a research program involving the use of cell culture and microfluidic in vitro models to support our efforts in novel drug discovery and antibody delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The successful candidate will be responsible for the optimization and execution of microfluidic BBB-on-Chip primary cell culture and the development and validation of various in-vitro and cell-based assays, including, but not limited to cell-based qPCR/TaqMan, ELISA, westerns, enzymatic assays, imaging, and flow cytometry. [49482BR]
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Research Scientist
Research and Technology DevelopmentWe are seeking a talented, enthusiastic and experienced individual to work in a team of Institute researchers and faculty as part of the Bioinspired Therapeutics & Diagnostics platform. This candidate will be working on projects involving the development of novel therapeutics. In collaboration with other team members, this position will be responsible for designing and carrying out screening and characterization experiments to identify novel antibodies, peptides, and formulations. The candidate will be responsible for designing and carry out molecular biology, protein design, antibody selections, and cell-based assays in our process. [49871BR]
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Staff Scientist -Tissue and Organ Regeneration
Research and Technology DevelopmentWe are seeking a talented energetic professional to join our community as a Staff Scientist in the field of Tissue and Organ Regeneration. This entrepreneurially minded individual will work closely with Wyss Faculty and act as an intellectual ‘bridge’ scientist, who will bring both tissue engineering bench expertise and industry / startup experience in product development to the table, and combine these strengths to drive basic science findings from your future colleagues at Harvard, MIT, and Boston University into pre-clinical animal models, and eventually to patients. [49927BR]