Pharmanautix application
Drug Repurposing Specialist
Full-time, fixed-term contract · Milan, Italy — fully remote · 12 months
Pharmanautix Italia s.r.l., a company operating in the field of biotechnology research, is seeking a professional for the position and employment classification (inquadramento) of Drug Repurposing Specialist, to be hired under a full-time, fixed-term employment contract, with their place of work in Milan, Italy, and working fully remotely, subject to periodic business travel within Italy and the possibility of occasional international business travel.
- Contract
- Full-time, fixed-term contract
- Classification
- C.C.N.L. Chimica e Affini – Industria, level D1
- Compensation
- C.C.N.L. Chimica e Affini – Industria, level D1. Base monthly salary €2,053.03 over thirteen instalments — gross annual salary (R.A.L.) €26,689.39.
- Location
- Milan, Italy — fully remote
- Duration
- 12 months
What you will do
- Build upon and further develop our existing drug-repurposing infrastructure, integrating it with our core technology to identify and prioritise approved or investigational compounds predicted to modulate genes of interest with the desired direction of biological effect, including activation or inhibition.
- Occasionally curate, preprocess and perform quality control on datasets.
Required
- Hands-on experience working on drug effect predictions and drug-target interaction.
- PhD with focus on either computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology (or equivalent) – OR master degree + 2 years working experience for a big tech company.
- Knowledge of chemical databases and drug-focused databases.
- Python proficiency, intermediate.
- Knowledge of RDKit.
- Deep understanding of multiomic data: how to interpret and troubleshoot bulk-RNA sequencing, single-cell RNA sequencing, TMT proteomics, SNPs in genomics, etc.
- Some experience using cluster computing from remote access, e.g. SSH or similar.
Preferred
- Hands-on experience on drug repurposing.
This job opportunity is open to candidates of either sex, without discrimination on grounds of gender, age, nationality or sexual orientation, pursuant to Italian Legislative Decrees No. 96/2026, No. 198/2006, No. 215/2003 and No. 216/2003, as amended. Personal data provided through CVs and the completion of forms will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003, as amended. The data controller is Pharmanautix Italia s.r.l. To exercise the rights afforded under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), data subjects may write to pharmanautix@gmail.com