About NNRCC NNRCC, founded in 1997, takes pride in being the first R&D centre established by a multinational pharmaceutical company in China that taps into the surrounding wealth of opportunities and talents in biomedical sciences. Its mission has aimed to become a centre of technological excellence and to forge collaborations among pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, research entities, and hospitals. Since its establishment, NNRCC has successfully become an essential and integral part of the Novo Nordisk R&D organization and contributed to filling the pipeline with novel product candidates. About the area & the Position In the Computational Research area, we collaborate closely with research scientists across the R&D area to improve and accelerate the understanding of disease biology for target discovery and development. We are actively acquiring access to new computational platform while developing and applying data analysis tools and prediction models to a variety of biological and chemical data Your responsibility will be to work closely with scientists across our R&D sites in Denmark, China and UK to contribute to global bioinformatics and computational biology strategy. In particular, we expect you to drive advance computational analyses and computational platform development in NNRCC to contribute to various stages in pre-clinical study, including identifying and validating new therapeutic targets from in-house and public datasets, understanding mode of action and more. Another important part of the job is to participate in training and knowledge sharing for non-computational scientists in the organization. This position will also involve establishing and driving external bioinformatics and computational biology collaborations. Qualifications PhD in bioinformatics / computational science / biological sciences or equivalent, preferably at least 3 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry or academia. Strong knowledge within one or more specific areas in biological mechanisms and drug discovery process, such as pathway and network analysis, genetic analysis and DNA/protein sequence analysis, oligo design and so on. Practical experience in applying computational biological methods on large scale biomedical datasets such as omics data and GWAS data Strong networking and ability to identify and coordinate new external collaborative opportunities for computational biology Experience with common computational biology programming languages (e.g. Python, R, Bash) as well as package, dependency and environment management tools Excellent English skill to work as part of the global team Ability to communicate proficiently with non-experts across different scientific disciplines (wet and dry), both verbally and non-verbally Benefits of working at Novo Nordisk Opportunity to work in a collaborative and stimulating work environment with the prospect of improving the lives of patients with diabetes and other chronic diseases Positive working culture where employees are empowered and the importance of achieving a good work-live balance is valued Some general facts and figures about Novo Nordisk A/S can be found at https://www.novonordisk.com/rnd/facts-and-figures.html Millions rely on us To work for Novo Nordisk you will need the skills, dedication and ambition to change lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronical diseases. In exchange, we offer the chance to be part of a truly global workplace, where passion and engagement are met with opportunities for professional and personal development.
