Postdoctoral Fellow, Synthetic Organic Chemistry

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

Program Overview

AbbVie needs outstanding individuals willing to challenge themselves to find the best solutions for our patients. The AbbVie Postdoctoral Program is one way we are doing just that. AbbVie Postdoctoral Fellows serve as technical experts who investigate, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques to address critical project or functional area needs. Participants will improve existing or develop new laboratory methods and processes, read and adapt literature to accomplish assignments, and should have mastery of a range of experimental techniques and data analysis specific to their area of expertise.

The Postdoctoral Program supports investigational and experimental research where publication is an important component. Participants will be mentored by renowned industry scientists and collaborators at AbbVie and focus on delivering cutting-edge advancements in Discovery, Development Sciences, and Aesthetics which includes fields such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical science, and computational information sciences. This enriching training program offers a balance of supervised investigation and work experience in a learning environment that will expose the participant to activities across the drug development process.

We are seeking scientists from U.S.-based academic institutions who can be matched to projects within their area of scientific expertise for this unique 2-3-year assignment. Applicants who are awarded a postdoctoral position will have the opportunity to build a solid career foundation in the pharmaceutical industry while contributing to advancing human health through AbbVie's industry-leading biopharmaceutical pipeline.

Role Overview

The postdoctoral fellow will be part of the Centralized Organic Synthesis Group within Global Medicinal Chemistry at AbbVie's headquarters location in Lake County, IL. This team is actively involved in supporting medicinal chemistry programs and engages broadly in the development of innovative organic chemistry solutions to accelerate the early small-molecule pipeline through collaborations across AbbVie discovery research, development sciences, and with external academic partners.

The postdoctoral fellow will be engaged in the development of novel synthetic organic methodologies of interest to AbbVie's small molecule portfolio. This will include supporting initiatives in novel non-canonical amino acid synthesis to enrich AbbVie's internal compound collection and impact ongoing and future peptide programs. The publication-quality synthetic methodology developed by the postdoctoral fellow is anticipated to be impactful both internally and across the broader external synthesis community.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high quality synthetic organic chemistry methodology research in a laboratory setting
• Collaborate with AbbVie internal design and synthesis teams and external academic partners to advance research objectives
• Maintain a high level of productivity in the laboratory setting
• Effectively write and communicate research materials
• Proactively seek out new information in the literature and incorporate this into projects
• Publish research in peer-reviewed journals and present work at scientific conferences aligned with business objectives
• Demonstrate a high degree of responsibility in maintaining scientific standards and safe laboratory practices

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• PhD in Organic Chemistry or related field (summer and fall graduates are also welcome to