Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please see below our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Welcome to Next Phase Recruitment! Please use the above link to see our current jobs that match your search criteria. For a broader job search please visit the home page or call us on 01403 216216 to discuss career options in other areas of Life Science and Technology.
Mid/Senior Computational Drug Discovery Scientist
Computational Drug Discovery Scientists use modelling and simulation to accelerate early-stage drug discovery. They design and optimize small molecules through computer-aided drug design (CADD) and structure-based modelling.
Core duties:
Running molecular docking, dynamics, and pharmacophore modelling – Using software like Schrodinger, MOE, or OpenEye.
Collaborating with medicinal chemistry and biology teams – Informing compound selection and SAR analysis.
Designing virtual screening workflows – Prioritising libraries and filtering based on predicted properties (e.g., ADMET).
Building QSAR and ML models – To predict compound activity and guide lead optimization.
Contributing to publications and intellectual property – Supporting innovation across internal pipelines or collaborations.
Candidates typically have a PhD in computational chemistry, structural biology, or cheminformatics, with strong coding and visualization skills.
Worthing
Worthing is a large seaside town located in West Sussex in South East England. The cities of Brighton and Chichester are close by and London is only 50 miles away. Worthing is a great place to live and work with good schools and transport links as well as a pier, sports facilities, a theatre, cinemas and a wide variety of shops, restaurants and bars. Worthing also benefits from being located at the foot of the South Downs, the UK’s most recent National Park, which offers fabulous scenery, marked trails for walking, horse riding and mountain biking. Worthing was first inhabited in the Bronze Age, became a farmstead in the Roman era and remained a small agricultural fishing village for centuries after that. Thanks to Princess Amelia, who decided to visit Worthing in 1798 to help her recuperate from TB, Worthing became a fashionable destination for wealthy members of London’s Society to try out the beneficial effects of bathing in the sea. Tourism is still a major employer in Worthing together with pharmaceuticals, medical devices production and financial services.
