What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?
Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.
At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:
- We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
- We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
- We have a sense of urgency and persistence and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
- We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
- We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
- We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise
Reporting to the Head of DMPK at Montai Therapeutics, the ideal candidate will lead DMPK activities to support research and early development projects in Montai Therapeutics’ Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK) team. We expect this person to collaborate with team members across other functions such as medicinal chemistry, formulation, safety assessment, pharmacology and clinical development to advance Montai’s pipeline. We also would expect the ideal candidate to design and manage external ADME/PK studies at multiple contract research organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Initiate and conduct in vitro and in vivo ADME/PK studies
- Interact and oversee outsourcing ADME/PK studies as a study monitor
- Prepare, review, and approve GLP/non-GLP-related documents (SOPs, protocols, amendments, reports, etc.) generated internally or externally
- Assist the Head of DMPK department in establishing a solid research and development system and in prioritizing and forecasting workload, and ultimately meeting group, departmental, and company goals
- Serve as a project team representative: Ensure effective achievement of lead optimization goals and candidate selection in late-stage research. Coordinate and interact with other department members for planning GLP or non-GLP nonclinical studies, clinical studies, TK/safety, and DMPK-related activities
- Oversee ADME/PK data entry to internal database
Qualifications:
- Advanced degree required . in pharmacology and ADME/PK related discipline with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in DMPK and/or relevant experience.
- Depth understanding of Pharmacology/ADME/PK and GLP regulations and relevant regulatory guidance/ guidelines
- Depth understanding bioanalysis with LC/MS/MS (or HRMS), data interpretation and troubleshooting
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Also, ability to present complex data to scientific and non-scientific members.
- Hands-on experience with WinNonlin/Phoenix. Experience in simulation software (e.g. PBPK simulator) is a plus.
Flagship Pioneering has conceived of and created companies such as Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Editas Medicine (NASDAQ: EDIT), Omega Therapeutics (NASDAQ: OMGA), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Indigo Agriculture. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12th globally on Fortune’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.
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What We Do
Montai Health is focused on unlocking the power of nature to create Anthromolecule™ medicines that treat and preempt a broad range of human diseases, with an initial focus on inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Montai's CONECTA™ platform comprehensively maps Anthromolecule bioactivity across pathways that drive disease. The CONECTA platform leverages rapid and ever-growing advancements in the digitization of natural chemistry and human biology coupled with powerful computational tools for linking chemical structure and bioactivity. This confluence of biotechnologies enables Montai to build a powerful, one-of-a-kind discovery platform focused on creating safe, effective, and more human-centric medicines than ever before. Montai Health was founded in Flagship Labs in 2019. For more information, please visit www.montai.com.
