Summary
You will play a key role in ensuring scientific excellence, operational efficiency, and compliance with animal welfare and regulatory standards.
About the Role
Internal job title: Senior Scientist I/II
Position Location: Basel, CH onsite #LI-onsite
This role is based in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.
Join our Comparative Medicine team as a Senior Scientist I and play a pivotal role in advancing impactful preclinical research. In this highly specialised, hands-on position, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design and execute in vivo studies, ensuring scientific excellence, operational efficiency, and the highest standards of animal welfare.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a cutting-edge research environment, contribute to meaningful drug discovery programmes, and help shape both study outcomes and team capabilities through your expertise, collaboration, and commitment to quality.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on in vivo research support, including compound administration, blood and tissue collection, and clinical observations
- Contribute to study design, setup, and implementation of animal models and experimental techniques
- Coordinate and execute PK/PD studies and support ex vivo or in vitro assays as required
- Collaborate closely with research teams to ensure alignment with scientific objectives and study parameters
- Support planning, scheduling, and operational coordination of research activities
- Contribute to team development, including training and mentoring colleagues
- Ensure full compliance with regulatory requirements, SOPs, and animal welfare standards
Essential Requirements:
Education & Experience:
- Degree in Life Sciences or equivalent qualification (Bachelor + 7 year-experience in in vivo studies, or Master + 3 year-experience in in vivo studies). We may also consider recent PhD graduates (within last 3 years)
- LTK1 Certification (or equivalent)
Technical Expertise:
- Strong hands-on experience with in vivo techniques (e.g. dosing, sampling, clinical monitoring)
- Knowledge of PK/PD study execution and experimental design
- Familiarity with animal welfare regulations and SOP-driven environments
Skills & Competencies:
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality data
- High level of accountability, reliability, and scientific curiosity
- Proficient in English
Desirable Requirements:
- in vivo experience across multiple disease areas
* Please note that restrictions on flexible working may apply and will be discussed at interview stage if applicable. This role requires occasional weekend and holiday work.
Accessibility and Accommodation:
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.
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