BE - Junior Pathologist

Junior pathologist

Location: Beerse (On-site role, Mon-Fri)

Duration: until end January 2027

Hours: 40 hours per week

Roles and responsibilities:

Janssen Pharmaceutica is looking for a motivated junior pathologist or pathologist in training,

interested to join our department to participate to the Bigpicture European Grant.

The position is open from now until end January 2027, but the selected candidate can choose to stay for less than the full duration of the grant.

• You will participate in the European project Bigpicture (which begun in 2021) which aims to create a repository of digital images by scanning the glass slides covering a range of disease areas and nonclinical studies. This repository will then be used to develop artificial intelligence tools that could aid in the analysis of slides.

• In total, the project plans to populate the repository with 3 million digital slides from humans as well as laboratory animals, along with all the information associated with them;

• Your role in this project will be to help select the studies that Janssen will contribute to the project, de-archive, control and help scanning those studies, review the digital slides and associated metadata for quality and completeness check, review the findings and adapt them to the vocabularies used in the grant, annotate the findings on the digital slides, participate in meetings (several time per week) to drive the progression of the project (metadata, quality, honest broker, respect of EFPIA needs), contribute actively as co-author to scientific publication;

• You will be under the supervision of senior pathologists, supporting you whenever needed;

• You will also take part in other projects in the meantime and participate to the daily activities of the pathologists.

What is in for you?

• Contributing to a huge European project aiming to improve the field of pathology;

• Opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills in toxicologic pathology and digital pathology;

• Chance to create a network of people working in the field of pathology all around the world;

• Being part of an amazing team of specialists in pathology;

• Flexible working hours (40 h/week), with one recuperation day per month;

• Possibility to work at home for non-laboratory related tasks;

• Support for the preparation of the ECVP certifying examination.

What qualifications do we expect?

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine

• Interest in Veterinary Pathology

• Team spirit

• Self-motivation

• Independence

• Good level of written and spoken English (the colleagues who will supervise the candidate are also Dutch, French Swedish, Italian, and/or German speaking; due to the site location, Dutch is a bonus for social interactions and daily life, but not an obligation).

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