At Editas Medicine, we are pioneering the possible. Our mission and commitment is to translate the power and potential of the CRISPR/Cas12a and CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing systems into a robust pipeline of medicines for people living with serious diseases around the world. Our goal is to discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize transformative, durable, precision genomic medicines for a broad class of diseases.
Why Choose Editas?
At Editas Medicine, we’re a team of passionate problem solvers, harnessing the power and potential of CRISPR gene editing to transform the future of medicine. Driven by a shared purpose to serve people living with serious diseases, we succeed together through collaboration, mutual respect, and innovation. If you want to be part of a team where your voice is heard and respected, where you can operate at the forefront of gene editing, and push the boundaries of what’s possible in medicine, come join us and become an Editor!
Decoding The Role:
Editas Medicine is seeking an accomplished, motivated, and independent Scientist I to join our Molecular and Cell Biology group. The primary focus for this individual within the next 12 months will be to leverage their expertise in molecular and cell biology to vet new discovery drug targets, test and optimize various gene editing strategies, develop and implement molecular, cellular, and biochemical quantitative assays, and design and generate in cellulo disease models. The Scientist will play a key role in expanding Editas’s drug development pipeline and advancing the next generation of in vivo CRISPR-basedmedicines.
Characterizing Your Impact:
As the Scientist I, Cell and Molecular Biology, you will:
- Function within a team dedicated to developing new and innovative gene editing therapeutics from conception through critical program development milestones, with a focus on screening and optimizing therapeutic strategies, generating the necessary molecular tools and cellular systems for characterizing and quantifying biological outputs, and demonstrating proof of therapeutic impact.
- Work both independently and collaboratively within a matrixed research organization to design and execute critical experiments, generate, analyze, interpret, and communicate unambiguous data, and establish new scientific methodologies required for enabling high-quality, data-driven governance decisions and advancing program development in a timely manner.
- Generate cell-based phenotypic models of disease and establish the experimental paradigms that enables both the high-throughput screening of CRISPR system configurations or genome engineering strategies and the assessment of therapeutic hypotheses.
- Build precise and accurate quantitative assays to measure efficacy and biological function of gene editing strategies and their impact on disease phenotypes in cellulo and in vivo.
- Design and generate necessary molecular tools and reagents for testing gene therapies such as viral (e.g. AAV, lentivirus) and non-viral (e.g. LNP, mRNA, plasmid) delivery vectors.
- Serve as a hands-on mentor for junior research scientists and support their technical development within a laboratory setting.