Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
As a Scientist I at IMU Biosciences, you will be embedded in the wet lab platform team and work closely with other scientists to generate high-quality, reproducible data, providing a new perspective on human immunology. You will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the next-gen spectral flow and single cell genomics IMU platform.
Responsibilities
- Perform immune phenotyping and functional assays, including high-parameter flow cytometry
- Isolate and process human blood and tissue samples
- Prepare samples for single-cell sequencing workflows
- Support data handling, documentation, and storage in line with internal standards
- Maintain and adhere to laboratory quality control processes
- Perform routine instrument QC checks and basic troubleshooting
- Ensure accurate execution of SOPs and contribute to maintaining high data quality
- Work collaboratively across the lab team to support multiple concurrent projects
- Communicate progress clearly and proactively, contributing updates, ideas, and feedback
- Support coordination of sample receipt and logistics with external partners
- Contribute to general lab operations, including reagent preparation, stock management, and equipment upkeep
- Ensure samples, reagents, and materials are handled, stored, and tracked appropriately
- Contribute to optimisation of workflows and identification of new techniques or technologies to improve efficiency and reproducibility
Requirements
- BSc or MSc in a relevant biological science, with hands-on laboratory experience
- Strong practical experience in flow cytometry (minimum 15 colour panels)
- Experience working with human blood and/or tissue samples to isolate immune cells, eg PBMCs
- High level of attention to detail and commitment to data quality and reproducibility
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
- Proactive and self-motivated, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to troubleshoot experimental challenges
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Flexibility to accommodate time-sensitive sample workflows when required
- Knowledge of human immunology and immune phenotyping approaches
- Experience with spectral flow cytometry
- Exposure to single-cell genomics workflows
- Experience designing or optimising experiments
- Familiarity with LIMS/ELN systems
- Understanding of regulated lab environments (e.g. ISO 15189, ISO 13485)
- Experience in a biotech or pharmaceutical setting
Skills
- Flow cytometry
- Human blood and tissue sample processing
- Single-cell sequencing workflows
- Data handling
- Documentation
- Laboratory quality control
- Instrument QC
- Troubleshooting
- SOP execution
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Sample logistics
- Reagent preparation
- Stock management
- Equipment upkeep
- Workflow optimisation
- New technique identification
- Human immunology
- Immune phenotyping
- Spectral flow cytometry
- Single-cell genomics
- Experiment design
- LIMS/ELN systems
- Regulated lab environments
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Scientist I
Education Level
- BSc
- MSc
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Fast-paced, collaborative startup culture
- Strong opportunities for career development and progression
About the Company
- IMU Biosciences has developed proprietary platform technologies that generate and translate vast system-level immune data into actionable insights and tools to drive the development of precision medicines across a variety of diseases.
- Built on over a decade of research at King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute, IMU leverages advanced immune profiling with proprietary AI and machine learning analytics to uncover novel clinical immune signatures.
- IMU continues to establish partnerships with leading pharma and biotech companies to advance disease diagnosis, optimise product selection, and improve patient stratification and monitoring - while also building its own pipeline of innovative products.