Medicinal Chemist - Taste Modulation

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Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions.

There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

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Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people.

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We deliver differentiating technologies for flavor, taste, natural functional and nutritional ingredients, and integrated solutions to our customers, driving long-term and sustainable success!

Our multi-disciplinary scientific team provides us with a powerful platform of people, skill diversity, technologies, and tools to accelerate its research and discovery accomplishments.

Reporting to the Head of Explore, and being based onsite in Cincinnati, Ohio, you will join our innovative and multidisciplinary team.

You will use your expertise to contribute to the efficient design, synthesis, purification, and characterization of small molecules, peptides, and related compounds to support discovery programs.

Necessary to this position will be the ability to collaborate with internal and external specialists in cheminformatics, molecular biology, analytical chemistry and applications.

This is a hands-on laboratory role requiring proven expertise in synthetic organic chemistry.

PhD or Master's level in medicinal chemistry or organic chemistry with synthetic and molecule design background.

Preferred experience in pharmaceutical industry or other where experience is working with biologists and computational chemists to design new drugs or ligands.

This position is located in Cincinnati,Ohio.

• Research and Data Capture: Have a creative and data-driven scientist background and interest in applying your skills to help solve challenges related to taste modulation. Independently design, synthesize, and characterize taste active molecules with suitable toxicology and regulatory profiles. Interpret structure–activity relationship (SAR) data and contribute to compound design strategies. Support hit to lead and lead optimization programs.