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Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

AbbVie's Dermatology/Immunology Discovery Research group is looking for a highly motivated and experienced cell biologist to play an integral role in discovering therapeutics to treat inflammatory skin disorders. This position offers an exciting opportunity to advance the understanding of skin immune responses and create novel therapies for skin diseases such as Atopic Dermatitis and Hidradenitis Suppurativa. The candidate will work with a highly collaborative team of scientists in leading various activities including cutting edge complex disease model development and implementation. The candidate will support the identification of novel skin disease targets and advance ongoing projects with day-to-day laboratory benchwork, at the Lake County, Illinois location. Key responsibilities for the candidate will be to lead and design innovative research projects to investigate the immune response in skin diseases and interpret data and derive actionable insights to guide project direction and development of treatment hypotheses.

We are seeking a hands-on experimentalist who is proficient in cell biology research and is capable of leading scientific projects in collaboration with internal and external stake holders/experts. In addition, we are seeking a candidate who can independently research and understand relevant target/disease biology in a fast-paced environment and has excellent written and oral communication skills. The candidate will have the opportunity to present their results at team and internal/external science meetings. Prior experience in dermatology, complex human skin models, and microphysiological systems is preferred.

Major Responsibilities:

• Routinely demonstrate scientific initiative and creativity in research activities.
• Highly autonomous and productive in performing laboratory research or method development, requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor.
• May initiate new areas of investigation that are scientifically meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a research program.
• Demonstrates high proficiency across a wide range of relevant technologies.
• Maintain a high level of productivity in the lab.
• Formulate conclusions and design follow-on experiments based on multidisciplinary data.
• Primary author of publications, presentations, regulatory documents and/or primary inventor of patents.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, appropriate handling of materials, controlled drug and radioactive compounds, GxP compliance, and animal care
• Direct mentorship of others.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and typically, 10 years of experience, Master's Degree or equivalent education and typically 8 years of experience, PhD and no experience necessary.
• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of own scientific discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to learn, understand and master new experimental techniques.
• Ability to multitask and work within timelines.
• Demonstrated scientific writing skills and strong verbal communication skills.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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