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Date: Tue Jan 29 16:15:19 2008
Subject: 08.01.29 Computational Research Scientist, Fort Washington, PA
VITAE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. is an emerging pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative drugs by advancing its pipeline of product candidates in major therapeutic areas including cancer, dermatology and cardiovascular disease. Vitae is uniquely able to accelerate drug candidates by integrating the traditional drug discovery skills and intuition of proven drug developers with state-of-the-art, proprietary drug design technologies. Vitae Pharmaceuticals is financed by leading corporate and venture capital investors and is headquartered in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. As a Research Scientist in the Computational Drug Discovery group, you will help to develop and maintain the company's proprietary drug discovery technology. You will develop and implement fast and accurate methods for making predictions (such as protein-ligand binding free energies) to aid decision-making during preclinical drug discovery. You will design and code algorithms (in C++ and Java) for calculating molecular properties and simulating biological systems. You will work on Vitae's Contour Drug Discovery System, a Java-based, three-tiered molecular data management application comprising a GUI front end, a 200+ CPU compute cluster and a 200GB Oracle database. Job Requirements: - PhD in physical chemistry, chemical physics, physics, or biophysics from a top tier graduate program. - Good understanding of physics, physical chemistry, and structural biology. - 4+ years of independent research experience with computational simulations of biological phenomena such as protein folding or protein- ligand binding. - Experience developing algorithms for optimization, sampling, machine learning, and/or molecular dynamics. - Extensive programming experience in C++ (C++ and Java preferred). - Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal). - Experience with machine learning techniques is a plus. If interested, please send your CV to careers^^vitaepharma.com with Computational Research Scientist in the subject line. You can also visit our website to learn more about us: www.vitaepharma.com.NOTE THAT E-MAIL ADDRESSES HAVE BEEN MODIFIED!!!