Job description

Seeking Organic Chemists with expertise in the areas of the IUPAC Systematic Approach to Nomenclature. This effort is to obtain scientific support to evaluate, analyze, and review the Expanded Decision Tree to ensure that it is scientifically sound and suitable for prioritization of chemicals for further evaluation and safety assessment.

Essential Job Functions:

• Must have the ability to evaluate the applicability, limitations, relevance, reliability, reproducibility, and/or sensitivity of newly developed tools to confirm that they are fit for purpose.
• Must have the ability to work with Expanded Decision Tree (EDT) that can classify compounds with broad structural variation according to their chronic oral toxic potential and predict safe levels of intake.
• Must have ability to access safety and assess risk of compounds found in and imported foods, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices, radiological products, and tobacco products.
• Possess the ability to focus on the development areas on increasing the agency’s toxicology predictive capabilities that can potentially reduce the use of animal testing.

Necessary Skills and Qualifications:

• Possess very high working knowledge of organic chemistry and the IUPAC Systematic Approach to Nomenclature.
• Have a basic understanding of metabolism (a minimum of one semester coursework (3 credits) on metabolism or equivalent work experience).
• Have a basic knowledge of structure-toxicity relationships.
• Expert working knowledge of the Cramer et al. (1978) Decision Tree (Cramer, G. M., Ford, R. A., & Hall, R. L. (1978). Estimation of toxic hazard—a decision tree approach. Food and cosmetics toxicology, 16(3), 255-276.).

Education Level – Masters to Ph.D. (8+ years’ experience) Degree: : Organic Chemistry

• food technology, microbiology, biology, chemistry, physics, or a related discipline or field of biological or physical science.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote

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