Postdoctoral Researcher - Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry

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Position Summary
The Weaver Medicinal Chemistry Research Lab at the Krembil Research Institute is a multi-disciplinary research group consisting of computational and synthetic chemists, biochemists, molecular biologists, and behavioural neuroscientists. Our goal is to design and develop new therapeutic molecules for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease.

As a Postdoctoral Researcher in Medicinal Synthetic Chemistry you will help design and synthesize new chemical entity small molecules as putative drug platforms. You will work closely with our computational chemists and biologists.

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