AbbVie Discovery Neuroscience team seeks a collaborative senior scientist who will lead from the laboratory bench to support advancement of psychiatry assets. In this onsite role, you will leverage your significant demonstrated experience in molecular and cellular pharmacology, in vitro human-derived cellular models, and ex vivo sample analysis to propose/evaluate new approaches and carry out well-matched approaches for scientific questions supporting advancement of assets through stage-gate transitions.  

You will be expected to have strong communication skills, be agile, operate comfortably with ambiguity on formal and informal teams, and work with a sense of urgency and accountability to advance projects efficiently and compliantly. Opportunities will exist to contribute to target validation and progression, collaborate across AbbVie sites, present your work, and mentor scientists. We’re excited to see how you can help AbbVie develop life-changing psychiatric therapeutics for patients. 

Responsibilities

• Proactively translate department/project team scientific questions into well-designed experiments, utilizing internal and external resources 
• Explore multiple technical options for approach, quality, feasibility, efficiency and present recommendations at project team or group meetings 
• Set up and carry out novel molecular and cellular assays/models to support SAR and understanding of target biology in context of project team goals & transitions  
• Document protocols and results in databases and electronic laboratory notebook, contributing to formal study reports per business need 
• Uphold impeccable research-related & corporate compliance standards 
• Collaborate across the organization; Mentor/matrix manage junior scientists