Good morning! Between April 26 and May 2, there were 39 new positions posted on the ACS Careers website. Of these, 14 (36%) are academically connected and 1 (3%) is from our friends at Kelly Scientific Resources.
Hmmm: A definite slowdown in the number of positions being posted, if I can go close to a week without posting a DPT and only come up with 39 new positions. (None Merck, though. Thank goodness for small blessings.)
Well, that's nice: A nice slug of US-based positions from our friends at DuPont, six in less than a week. Good news for someone.
Rock, chalk: PROSOCO (of Lawrence, Kansas) is looking for a B.S. chemist with experience or training in cleaning surface chemistry for a position as a formulator. Pays close to or better than the median household income for the county!
Heeeeeey: Ensemble Therapeutics has a position for a M.S/Ph.D. computational chemist. There has GOT to be a laid-off computational chemist with these qualifications: "Experience in supporting medicinal chemists in drug discovery programs and experience of commonly used commercial software and leading academic applications including Pipeline Pilot, Discovery Studio, CHARMM and Catalyst."
And for this one, too: SAIC is the contractor for the NCI's "NCI Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program." They wish for a Ph.D. medicinal chemist with "ten (10) years of post-graduate experience, including at least 7 years focusing on discovery and optimization of small molecule New Molecular Entities (NMEs) in pharmaceutical or biotechnology organizations; and minimum 5 years managing complex programs that include outsourcing activities. Extensive medicinal chemistry experience in structure-based drug discovery and iterative drug design." Good luck out there -- I suspect that this is a good one. (I mean, it's a defense contractor -- when was the last time you heard of a defense contractor losing a contract?!?!)
Hey, wait a minute: Kelly Scientific is looking for a Ph.D. medicinal chemist to work on the NCI's "NCI Experimental Therapeutics NExT Program." Hey, that sounds familiar... I think this position is the boss of the last one -- or is it the other way around? I dunno -- I don't speak governmentese. OK, I think I'm going to devote a post in the next week to figuring out all of these recent NIH/NCI positions.
You kids -- get back in line!: Polysciences wants a M.S./Ph.D. synthetic chemist for bench work; "this is a must, we are not interested in candidates who only have university experience." OK, OK, I get it.
Hmmm: A definite slowdown in the number of positions being posted, if I can go close to a week without posting a DPT and only come up with 39 new positions. (None Merck, though. Thank goodness for small blessings.)
Well, that's nice: A nice slug of US-based positions from our friends at DuPont, six in less than a week. Good news for someone.
Rock, chalk: PROSOCO (of Lawrence, Kansas) is looking for a B.S. chemist with experience or training in cleaning surface chemistry for a position as a formulator. Pays close to or better than the median household income for the county!
Heeeeeey: Ensemble Therapeutics has a position for a M.S/Ph.D. computational chemist. There has GOT to be a laid-off computational chemist with these qualifications: "Experience in supporting medicinal chemists in drug discovery programs and experience of commonly used commercial software and leading academic applications including Pipeline Pilot, Discovery Studio, CHARMM and Catalyst."
And for this one, too: SAIC is the contractor for the NCI's "NCI Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program." They wish for a Ph.D. medicinal chemist with "ten (10) years of post-graduate experience, including at least 7 years focusing on discovery and optimization of small molecule New Molecular Entities (NMEs) in pharmaceutical or biotechnology organizations; and minimum 5 years managing complex programs that include outsourcing activities. Extensive medicinal chemistry experience in structure-based drug discovery and iterative drug design." Good luck out there -- I suspect that this is a good one. (I mean, it's a defense contractor -- when was the last time you heard of a defense contractor losing a contract?!?!)
Hey, wait a minute: Kelly Scientific is looking for a Ph.D. medicinal chemist to work on the NCI's "NCI Experimental Therapeutics NExT Program." Hey, that sounds familiar... I think this position is the boss of the last one -- or is it the other way around? I dunno -- I don't speak governmentese. OK, I think I'm going to devote a post in the next week to figuring out all of these recent NIH/NCI positions.
You kids -- get back in line!: Polysciences wants a M.S./Ph.D. synthetic chemist for bench work; "this is a must, we are not interested in candidates who only have university experience." OK, OK, I get it.
MEEERRCCKKK! Why have you forsaken us?!
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's like Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton - when Kelly Scientific or DuPont are around, Merck is nowhere to be seen...
ReplyDeleteI'd love for you to put up a post on governmentese. Having just applied to a couple of positions I can vouch for the very confusing language and extreme bureaucracy just to apply for these positions.
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